Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:48 am
Richard Thursby wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:41 am
[was, however, before any of Chess.com (in its current form), Lichess, or chess24 existed (taking the three sites mentioned in the History section of Online Chess in Wikipedia).
Surely ICC and its non-commercial equivalent FICS predate all three?
ICC had coverage for paying members of high level events with GM commentary. Its policy towards engine users or suspected engine users was to stick (C) after their user name. Writing chess engines was a hobby of some in the 1990s and perhaps later. ICC had no real problem with allowing them to be tested on its site provided they were flagged. I think they applied a similar policy to Cyborgs.
Ah, the lost days of innocence before computers got so good...
(Well, actually, even then they were better than me, not difficult, and were fast approaching GM level. It is suprising looking back that the famous Kasparov loss was so early - 1997)
