wrote:
Well, I have tried a telnet connection with both babaschess and jin -
no response. Any suggestios, anyone?

Check that you're using the server `freechess.org', *not*
`www.freechess.org'. Usually, they're equivalent but, at the moment,
the first one is working and the second isn't.


Dave.

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