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Date: 21 Nov 2006 18:56:13
From: John Timms
Subject: is FICS down?

I cannot connect to FICS.
Any1 else have this problem?

Date: 21 Nov 2006 15:26:45
From: Mr. Wizard
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

[email protected] wrote:
> John Timms wrote:
> > I cannot connect to FICS.
> > Any1 else have this problem?
>
> FICS is changing some hardware, this was announced in advance.

FICS took the site down 11/20 for hardware replacement. Hopefully the
site will be back online soon.

Date: 21 Nov 2006 15:22:47
From:
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

John Timms wrote:
> I cannot connect to FICS.
> Any1 else have this problem?

FICS is changing some hardware, this was announced in advance.

Date: 21 Nov 2006 18:40:07
From: Thomas T. Veldhouse
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

John Timms <[email protected] > wrote:
> I cannot connect to FICS.
> Any1 else have this problem?
>

It's toast.

If you note, the website has been down too. http://www.freechess.org

I can't find anything special as to why it has "gone missing", but I think the
last of the great free chess servers may have passed.

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Date: 22 Nov 2006 08:08:14
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

Thomas T. Veldhouse <[email protected] > wrote:
> John Timms <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I cannot connect to FICS.
>
> It's toast.
>
> If you note, the website has been down too. http://www.freechess.org
>
> I can't find anything special as to why it has "gone missing"

Server downtime last night (Monday 21st) was announced on Friday. The
webserver is still down but you can still connect using a client such
as Babaschess[1], pointed at freechess.org, port 5000.

> I think the last of the great free chess servers may have passed.

Because *obviously* if a server is down for a couple of hours, it'll
never, ever come back. Jeez guys, come on. Stop with the morbid
speculation already.

Dave.

[1] http://www.babaschess.net/

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Date: 22 Nov 2006 13:46:57
From: Thomas T. Veldhouse
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

David Richerby <[email protected] > wrote:
> Thomas T. Veldhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>> John Timms <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I cannot connect to FICS.
>>
>> It's toast.
>>
>> If you note, the website has been down too. http://www.freechess.org
>>
>> I can't find anything special as to why it has "gone missing"
>
> Server downtime last night (Monday 21st) was announced on Friday. The
> webserver is still down but you can still connect using a client such
> as Babaschess[1], pointed at freechess.org, port 5000.
>

Indeed ... the server appears to be back up again. I am glad to hear it, as I
have always enjoyed my time on FICS.

>
>> I think the last of the great free chess servers may have passed.
>
> Because *obviously* if a server is down for a couple of hours, it'll
> never, ever come back. Jeez guys, come on. Stop with the morbid
> speculation already.
>

There have been several posts made here over the last couple of months, and
many times that I checked [not just this latest episode], they were indeed
down, which is why I made that incorrect assumption.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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Date: 21 Nov 2006 20:17:33
From: John Timms
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

I also cannot connect with BabasChess.
So I cant play...
Does this problem occur to others?
What about other GUIs?

"John Timms" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I cannot connect to FICS.
> Any1 else have this problem?
>
>

Date: 21 Nov 2006 18:11:33
From: Ruud
Subject: Re: is FICS down?

"John Timms" <[email protected] > schreef in bericht
news:[email protected]...
>I cannot connect to FICS.
> Any1 else have this problem?

Yes, me.
It's been like this for several weeks now.
Someone posted a way to connect to FICS, a while back, but that was very
unclear.
Hopefully it can be cleared up now.