IECC Bulletin #8 Published by the International Email Chess Club Devoted solely to E-Mail Correspondence Chess *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ May 28, 1995 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Announcing: IECC files now available at ftp site ! -------------------------------------------------- IECC Newsletters as well as the regular IECC reports (Ratings, Pyramid, Events and Thematics) have been posted in Usenet's rec.games.chess newsgroup. We are now also placing this news, as well as other IECC files, at the ftp site 'ftp.pitt.edu' in the area 'group/chess/NEWS'. Login to this site as 'anonymous' and give your e-mail address for your password (see sample ftp session below). Look around...there is lots of good chess stuff here in the various groups. The 'Newstuff' group should also have a list of recent files that have been uploaded along with a description of them. Watch for Doug Attig's announcements in rgc of uploads to here as well. Our many thanks as well to Doug for suggesting this site and his continued assistance in getting our files on-line !! Here is a list of IECC files currently available from 'ftp.pitt.edu': filename|ext|size | description --------+---+------+------------------------------------------------------ IECC0514 ZIP 14,355 Latest IECC events, Pyramid, ratings, game results, Thematic & general activities as of May 26, 1995 IECC0518 ZIP 14,396 - as of May 18, 1995 IECC0520 ZIP 13,447 - as of May 20, 1995 IECC0522 ZIP 15,058 - as of May 22, 1995 IECC0525 ZIP 13,827 - as of May 25, 1995 IECC0526 ZIP 14,089 - as of May 26, 1995 IECCBUL7 ZIP 3,750 IECC special bulletin No. 7: Chess Academy Special Studies Group which explores various aspects of books, endgames and advanced analysis studies. IECCFAQ ZIP 4,448 Latest IECC FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) version as of May 10, 1995. IECCV1-7 ZIP 41,981 IECC bulletins 'IECC Chess Bits & Pieces': Vol.1, No.1 to Vol.1 No 7 as separate files for each issue in the zip file. IECCV1N8 ZIP 8,485 IECC newsletter Volume 1, No. 8 =========================================================================== How to ftp a file to your computer: Here is a sample session using the ftp program from my unix computer. This is the 'manual' way to do it. If you are lucky (I am!) you may have a nice windows point & click interface which makes life alot easier than even this! ftp ftp.pitt.edu Connected to ftp.pitt.edu. Name (ftp.pitt.edu:power): anonymous Password: (enter your email as password) ftp> cd group/chess ftp> ls drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 Apr 26 19:10 BU drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 4096 May 24 00:20 CA drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 4096 May 24 00:52 CB drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 Apr 26 19:51 DTP drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 21 17:24 EDUC drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 Apr 4 22:24 GRAPH drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 24 00:04 NEWS drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 Apr 1 20:50 NICB drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 24 16:09 Newstuff drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 4096 May 22 18:40 PGN drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 14 18:03 PROG drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 Apr 1 00:26 REV drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 21 17:24 TEXT drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 2048 May 18 22:47 UTIL drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 5576 6144 May 26 12:35 Uploads drwxr-xr-x 2 -26516 system 2048 Nov 29 07:48 fics ftp> cd NEWS ftp> ls iecc* -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 14355 May 14 18:07 iecc0514.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 14396 May 18 22:23 iecc0518.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 13447 May 21 17:26 iecc0520.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 15058 May 24 00:04 iecc0522.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 3750 May 24 00:04 ieccbul7.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 4448 May 24 00:03 ieccfaq.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 41981 May 16 20:09 ieccv1-7.zip -rw-r----- 1 20453 USC 8485 May 21 17:26 ieccv1n8.zip ftp> binary ftp> mget ieccfaq.zip mget ieccfaq.zip? y 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for ieccfaq.zip (4448 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 4467 bytes received in 2.00 seconds (2.18 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit ========================================================================== Enjoy, explore and you can contribute chess files to this site as well. Upload using the 'mput' command into the directory 'group/chess/Uploads' Mike Power, VP Communications. ------------------------------------------------------------------ International Email Chess Club [IECC] ------------------------------------------------------------------