"Mike Murray" wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:51:50 -0800, Mike Murray
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On 23 Dec 2006 09:32:17 -0800, "Rob" wrote:


I am signed on as : robmtchl= Rob Mitchell
You are Nemmers= Matt Nemmers

Angelo we need yours as well
Everyone else should take the 3minutes to sign up for this service and
post your playing name online so we can get on with this. I think it
will be great fun!

I'm registered as "Mike Murray". There's somebody else already there
as "mikemurray", which might cause confusion.


Hmmm. It looks as one can *only* play email chess on this site. I
prefer instant gratification, such as on playchess.com (my favorite
time controls are 3-2 and 1-3, but 5-0 and 4-0 are also OK).

Yeah, its just e-mail games. I've played a few hundred games at the site
[300?], and seems like the fastest time control is 2 days, but if you play
lots of games sometimes you can play 'as live' when another player is
playing the same set of games against you, and you can waste a few hours
progressing half a dozen boards.

I've played people from Montenegro, Iran, New Zealand, India &c. Sometimes
you can join an open tournament as well, which often has wide ranges of
ratings, and as many as a dozen players. I think the sign-up default will
start you at 1400. There is one feature in tournaments to be aware of - if
your opponent doesn't make a move in time, you have to claim the result,
otherwise the game is scored null, or you even lose points - I'm not very
clear how that works.

Therefore you have to scan your open games which is a bit laborious if you
play a lot.

Phil Innes