why icc is worth the money

I noticed ICC was saving my games in the Blitzin folder on my harddrive.
The games are saved as pgn. and i can open them in chessbase.
Not only can i replay the moves in cbase interface, but i get a pie chart, and breakdown of my winning percentage, and elo performance.
I play mostly 5 min, in the 5 min random, and Surprisingly i score better with black! By about 8%!
So much for whites advantage....
It could be that most blitz players press, with white, and overextend themselves. or maybe im just more knowledgeable with the black pieces.
I play kings indian, or modern, and sicillian. Just experimenting with colle, and torre attack for white.
My rating with black is 1652. But this is 5min, and the random setting only, so i guess this rating to be about 200 points lower then regular blitz (on ICC)

Dont know if this applies to other time controls. It would make better sense if it was for each time control.
Seems like a great idea, this is why it seems worth the $$.
For serious internet players, ICC, is the place to play

But playchess does this too. And you get that free when you purchase an engine.

EDIT: And the interface is better.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
But playchess does this too. And you get that free when you purchase an engine.

EDIT: And the interface is better.

A lot of players at my chess club have both ICC and Playchess. They pay for ICC and have the 1 year free subscription that comes with Fritz. They all tell me that Playchess has the better interface, but ICC is better for the serious chess player. My 1 year just ran out on Playchess, so I will probably end up getting ICC now.

Playchess is much better than ICC. It has a muuuuch better interface, all the games you play or even look at are automaticly saved, comes with all the happy charts and percentages that you want also to buy an account is much cheaper at playchess than ICC.......$34 Playchess compared to $49 at ICC.

As was pointed out playchess has an international community. Its not uncommon for people to be talking in German there.....*shrugs* Maybe thats scares some people. I dont speak German and chat there a lot.

Besides Kasparov is seen around Playchess, he probably wouldnt be seen dead on ICC 😛

Not to mention that ICC admins are total power freak gimps.

Playchess is growing and will continue to do so simply because its released with every Fritz GUI program ICC cant compete with that in the long run its only a matter of time till ICC goes the way of Chess21 etc. The fritz interface improves with each new upgrade the latest one is quite quirky.......tell you that the sun has risen....like I couldnt look out of the window......tells you the temperature etc....nice clicking on one of the Russians and seeing that Morzoviech is freezing his balls off in -10c weather 😛

Originally posted by Bedlam
Playchess is much better than ICC. It has a muuuuch better interface, all the games you play or even look at are automaticly saved, comes with all the happy charts and percentages that you want also to buy an account is much cheaper at playchess than ICC.......$34 Playchess compared to $49 at ICC.

As was pointed out playchess has an international commun ...[text shortened]... g on one of the Russians and seeing that Morzoviech is freezing his balls off in -10c weather 😛

Originally posted by Grandmouster
my point about the german, is no communication with admins, in english, or doutch.
the ICC admins are underpaid (free) so why else would they help?
So let them have their trip, at least you can get an answer most of the time when you need help.
Try getting that from fritz.
The interface is terrible...Its too confusing.
Just like the software. You need to be a techie to understand it.
ICC is easier to use, and play at by far.

Originally posted by Bedlam
All the playchess admins speak English. Its a requirment for being a sysop and yes some of the playchess admins are paid.......the site is run professionally unlike ICC where the admins are just pure gimps. At least 3 of the Playchess admins are rated over 2000 in real life, they are people who know chess.

Playchess's interfact craps over ICC's from a hi ...[text shortened]... d let it run out then make another and so on, if you cant afford the yearly membership status.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
You can do that?! Why does anyone bother to pay then?

Originally posted by Bedlam
Hm. Theres limitations placed on the free accounts. They need to get a bishop status before they get the full membership benfits. Basicly things you cant do with the free accounts is create private chess training rooms or chat in the general chat. Also every 30 days you will have to create a new account. However once you hit bishop rank on your free acco ...[text shortened]... ms give their comments on the game they was just playing 30 seconds ago.....gosh......fantastic.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I really need to pick up Fritz and get Playchess...Really, I mean I CAN afford it...

Originally posted by Bedlam
Playchess is much better than ICC. It has a muuuuch better interface, all the games you play or even look at are automaticly saved

Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
How do you configure the automatic saving of games? I can't find this feature, and I never knew my games were being saved. Now, I don't know where they have been saved. I thought each game had to be saved manually.

Originally posted by Bedlam
Its done automaticly im not even sure if you can turn it off 🙂

Just search your pc for "myinternetgames"

They should be in C:\My Documents\chessbase
maybe C:\My Documents and Settings\WinXP ID\My Documents\chessbase

There should also be MyInternetKibitzing there which is anything you looked at on playchess.

Anything you play in the normal offline fritz will be saved to "AutoSave"

Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
I'll be damned. I found them!

I had looked all through the client for a way to save games automatically - I had no idea it was being done secretly.

Thanks for the heads up.