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Name: Maria
E-Mail: qwerties_AT_terra_DoT_es
City/State: Malaga
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Date: Wed Apr 19 19:21:14 2006
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Error to compile winboard. I need help. Thanks Error: Linking... childio.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _pipe Debug/win4.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Error executing link.exe.
Name: Maria
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City/State: Malaga
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Date: Mon Apr 17 19:47:24 2006
How you found us: CCC or Winboard Forum or Tim Mann's Winboard site
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I am a student of engenering and I need to compile the windboard source, but I have a lot of problems. How can I get a compilable windboard source and make my windboard.exe. Excuse my english, I´m Spanish. Thank you.
Name: Katrina Taylor
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City/State: Lake Mary,Florida
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Date: Sat Mar 18 03:00:03 2006
How you found us: A computer chess related site
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I really love your website. The graphics are outstanding. Keep up the good work.
Name: Chase Randall
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City/State: atlanta, georgia
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Date: Wed Mar 1 16:24:53 2006
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nice website....way 2 much info for me to digest at one setting....keep up the good work.
Name: Rik
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Date: Wed Feb 22 22:40:48 2006
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Handy site, needed those tablebases for some lookup.
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Name: Arild Fredriksen
E-Mail: webmaster_AT_chesslib_DoT_no
City/State: Bergen
Home Page: http://www.chesslib.no
Date: Fri Jul 29 05:09:27 2005
How you found us: CCC or Winboard Forum or Tim Mann's Winboard site
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You have the best guide to endgame tables available. Quoting my self: "If you have any questions about the Nalimov’s, this is where you find the answers". Thank you. All the best and good chess. Arild Fredriksen
Name: Frank Wies
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City/State: CA
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Date: Mon Jul 18 09:39:08 2005
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Aaron, Thanks for the effort you have put forth for this website, it has been very helpful.
Name: A. Jalil S.M. Ayyad
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City/State: Bahrain
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Date: Tue Jun 21 19:09:36 2005
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by chess site
Name: kyo kusunagi
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Date: Thu Jun 9 11:10:42 2005
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I really love the content of this site it serves as a source of valuable information in my life .I will continue to visit this websites often and I would like to thank you for your continual service
Name: Hans Frénay
E-Mail: hans_AT_schach_DoT_de
City/State: De Kwakel
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Date: Thu Apr 21 21:07:50 2005
How you found us: Search Engine
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I was looking for a formula which can calculate the size of a x-piece endtable base in Yahoo. This way I have found your very instructive website. I intend to forward your URL when customers encounter problems with their tablebases.
Name: Jim Ablett
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Home Page: http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html
Date: Wed Mar 23 20:52:53 2005
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Hi Aaron, Thanks for putting a link to my homepage on your Faq. (I've arrived at last!. Much appreciated, Regards Jim Ablett.
Name: Chuck Ayoub
E-Mail: chuck_ayoub_AT_hotmail_DoT_com
City/State: Detroit
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Date: Wed Jan 12 11:48:58 2005
How you found us: By my best recollection, I don't remember
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Hello, I like your site and was wondering if you wanted to trade links. Chuck Ayoub
Name: Helge Larsson
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City/State: Mölndal
Home Page: NA
Date: Wed Dec 8 03:01:28 2004
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Welcome from sweden, playing as "xerthil" on FICS! Have a nice day and Good Luck!
Name: James Murphy
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City/State: Manchester
Home Page: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk
Date: Thu Dec 2 18:08:37 2004
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I'm currently an undergraduate and trying to implement an endgame solver with the use of Nalimov tablebases - I found your site particularly helpful in trying to understand how tablebases work! One suggestion though: could you please add more information about how to probe tablebases - keep up the good work!!
Name: Nirmal
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City/State: Kerala
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Date: Sat Nov 27 02:30:20 2004
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excellent! excellent!, thank you sir, please add more information
Name: james breeden
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City/State: leyden, massachusetts
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Date: Fri Oct 1 06:21:09 2004
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found you surfing in chessville links
Name: Eugen Grinis
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Date: Sun Sep 5 01:54:28 2004
How you found us: By my best recollection, I don't remember
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Very nice website indeed! Best wishes Eugen
Name: Aaron
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City/State: Singapore
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Date: Fri Jul 23 22:13:37 2004
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I fixed the guestbook and it should be working again. Sorry about the 4 or 5 of you who tried to post comments but didn't succeed.
Name: Bill Waters
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Date: Sat Mar 13 02:03:23 2004
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Just needed to tell you what a great site this is for folks like myself who like to mess around with Chess engines...but I'm beginning to think it may take up more time than Chess... Regards Bill
Name: Empire of Nick
E-Mail: hermelin@gmx.net
City/State: Bern
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Date: Mon Sep 1 13:12:35 2003
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You created a great Page!
Name: danny santos
E-Mail: danlibz@yahoo.com
City/State: Philippines
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Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2003, at 7:33 p.m
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Benefitted most from your information. Keep up the good work! We need your kind in this endeavor. Thanks.

Danny
Name: tom wong
E-Mail: kwiktom@yahoo.com
City/State: australia
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Date: Sunday, 6 July 2003, at 5:26 p.m
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Thank you for taking time to put up a fantastic site, I use it regularly to get familiar with all the nitty-gritty and jargon in the chess world. Good Job and very well done.
Name: Norm Pruitt
E-Mail: austinchess@charter.net
City/State: North Carolina
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Date: Thursday, 26 June 2003, at 8:06 p.m
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Thanks for all the hard work



HI
Name: Frank Kolasinsk
E-Mail: f3rdhrsman@aol.com
City/State: Athol, Massachusetts - USA
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Date: Sunday, 22 June 2003, at 8:56 a.m
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Thanks for an informative and useful site. I visit it often.
Name: gustav sterzig
E-Mail: gsterzig@libero.it
City/State: italy
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Date: Thursday, 12 June 2003, at 10:29 p.m
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Very very useful site
thanks Aaron
Name: Wu Shuanglou
E-Mail: wushuanglou@hotmail.com
City/State: CN
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Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2003, at 12:16 p.m
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Many thanks to your informative website!
I have learnt almost every hints about Winboard and winboard engines from you.
Name: soong
E-Mail: soong_zx
City/State: CN
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Date: Saturday, 29 March 2003, at 10:21 p.m
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I always think that Aaron's site is one of the best computer-chess related websites, especially for us amateurs. I have strongly recommended it to my friends.

I really appreciate the good help from Aaron, when I got many questions to ask you and soon received your answers which were very instructive! Keep the work!

I, and I think many of other visitors, will be very happy to visit and revisit your site frequently. :)


Name: Diego
E-Mail: daacosta69@hotmail.com
City/State: Norman, Oklahoma
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Date: Sunday, 26 January 2003, at 2:21 p.m
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Aaron,

I am very glad that I found your website. You saved me about 9000 hours of work... It was great to be able to download the 3-4 men tablebases... I am not sure if I will be able to fit the 5 and 6 men tablebases... Anyway, I want to congratulate you for your website and answering my questions on how to make Crafty much more powerfull...

Kind regards


Name: Marc Bourzutschky
E-Mail: msbky@msn.com
City/State: USA
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Date: Friday, 17 January 2003, at 9:27 a.m
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Hi Aaron,

Thank you for maintaining this very informative site!

-Marc


Name: J Campbell
E-Mail: jcampbell@enpromech.com
City/State: Michigan, USA
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Date: Thursday, 16 January 2003, at 1:57 a.m
How you found us: Other
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Glad I found this!


Name: D.J
E-Mail: emerldblue@com.castnet
City/State: Denver.Colo,
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Date: Thursday, 9 January 2003, at 2:46 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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I hope to play a game of chess


Name: JAck
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City/State: USA
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Date: Tuesday, 10 December 2002, at 4:10 p.m
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Great site!


Name: paul nelson
E-Mail: paulhnelson@juno.com
City/State: kingsburg,CA
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Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2002, at 3:27 p.m.
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Just got through generating all the 5-man tablebases using FEG in CM9000. Also generated KQQkQQ--took about 11 hours, just to see if it would do it?
Has anyone tried to generate the complete 6-man?

Many thanks for your site.


Name: Steve Jones
E-Mail: newtton@yahoo.com
City/State: Reno Nevada
Home Page:
Date: Monday, 2 September 2002, at 3:11 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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The information I found on your site
was very helpful in learning the
features of Winboard, including
making it work with other chess
engines such as Amy


Name: cassie
E-Mail: ulinavk@axxent.ca
City/State: Tottenham,ont
Home Page:
Date: Monday, 26 August 2002, at 11:31 p.m
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I like this web-site.


Name: fred ajudua
E-Mail: fredajudua@mail.com
City/State: south africa
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Date: Monday, 12 August 2002, at 7:13 p.m.
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Highly informative. keep it up


Name: Kevin Monte de Ramos
E-Mail: ChessSTAT@kmdr.net
City/State: Montreal
Home Page:
Date: Monday, 5 August 2002, at 2:48 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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Thank you for putting up this site. I am working on an automated analysis system due out this fall. I found a flaw in that the suggested moves had quirky endgame recommendations. Now I am adding the endgame tablebases to my work.


Name: John Smitch
E-Mail: chessking386@netscape.net
City/State: LA, California
Home Page:
Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2002, at 7:20 a.m.
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Your Web Site is really great, I visit it almost avery day.
Keep up the great work!


Name: Roger Brown
E-Mail: rogerhbrown@hotmail.com
City/State: Jamaica
Home Page:
Date: Friday, 12 July 2002, at 10:54 p.m..
How you found us: Other
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Hello Aaron,

This is way overdue. I have mined your pages over the years and I have found very valuable information here.

The opening book and tablebase sections are standouts but the general quality is quite high - all on a voluntary basis. AMAZING!

I appluad the effort and integrity that you bring to this huge task and I wish you all the very best in the future.

Later.


Name: steve james
E-Mail: mecavemantoo@yahoo.com
City/State: orlando fl
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 23 June 2002, at 3:50 a.m
How you found us: Other
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Hello Aaron,

you have been very helpful thanks i will keep you updated.


Name: Vine Smith
E-Mail: vinehsmith@earthlink.net
City/State: Los Angeles, CA -- USA
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Date: Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 4:16 p.m.
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Many thanks for compiling a great deal of useful information here. Some of the information about tablebases is available nowhere else.

Regards,
Vine Smith


Name: nnn
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Date: Friday, 7 June 2002, at 4:35 p.m.
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Lots of good stuff here. However, i find this site is somewhat too Windows specific. There are lot of exciting Linux stuff also, which is not covered here. I would like to make some points:

1. XBoard for UNIX was first, then came Winboard

2. Scid was first in UNIX/Linux

3. Crafty works also in UNIX/Linux, in fact its compiled with GNU gcc.

4. Lot of chess stuff covered here is GNU GPL and GNU/Linux is also GPL.

5. There are other cool chess stuff in Linux, which is not covered at all here like EBoard (http://eboard.sourceforge.net) and Knights (http://knights.sourceforge.net)

So i would like to see here some Linux/Unix overview also. Thats just my wish, this site is cool anyway and many tips described here are also useful in Linux. Thank you!


Name: Arne Pettersen
E-Mail: arne.pettersen@monet.no/b>
City/State: Norway
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 5 May 2002, at 5:01 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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Thank you for doing this jobb.


Name: mac
E-Mail: agoy@mac.com
City/State: USA
Home Page:
Date: Thursday, 18 April 2002, at 10:30 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Thanks for putting togeather a usefull website


Name: Slávek
E-Mail: slavek.k@tiscali.cz
City/State: Prague / Czech Republic
Home Page:
Date: Tuesday, 2 April 2002, at 5:25 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron, wonderfull site.
Thank you,

Slávek


Name: swapDate
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Date: Saturday, 2 March 2002, at 12:28 a.m.
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Nice web site


Name: kunnk
E-Mail: kunnk@yahoo.com
City/State: Estonia
Home Page:
Date: Tuesday, 19 February 2002, at 6:11 p.m
How you found us: Other
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Thanks for this greate FAQ. Im using crafty and xboard under linux, got lot of help here about opening books, tablespaces etc


Name: mak
E-Mail: limbun@hotmail.com
City/State: hk
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 3 February 2002, at 1:33 a.m.
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It was good to see informations all in 1.A good done helpful site. Thanks a lot......


Name: Frank Quisinsky
E-Mail: Quisinsky@amateurschach.de
City/State: Trier, Germany
Home Page:
Date: Thursday, 6 December 2001, at 9:55 p.m
How you found us: Other
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Hi,

the first:
Thanks for your nice words about my person.

I like this page and for me is this webpage the best information about Winboard (better then my work in the past, clear better).

Thanks Aaron!

Best
Frank.


Name: Marountas John
E-Mail: mic@digichess.gr
City/State: Greece
Home Page:
Date: Saturday, 17 November 2001, at 12:16 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi,

Very informative site!! I really can't stop reading your great FAQ on Winboard.

Well done!!


Name: Collin Bleak
E-Mail: collin@illura.com
City/State: New York, NY, USA
Home Page:
Date: Friday, 9 November 2001, at 12:23 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron, Very nice site. Simply organized and full of good info. It helped me answer my questions about WHY and HOW. Good luck!
-Collin


Name: Sarah Bird
E-Mail: chessfun_1999@yahoo.com
City/State: Canada
Home Page:
Date: 5 September 2001, at 5:01 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron,
Love the tournament pages, lot of usefull info for everyone.

Another good addition for Winboarders.

Sarah.


Name: Felix
E-Mail: shaqiverson@yahoo.com
City/State: Philadelphia, by the way of Kiev,Ukraine
Home Page:
Date: Wednesday, 15 August 2001, at 2:24 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Thanx for all your help


Name: Ivan P.
E-Mail: pivan33@hotmail.com
City/State: Canada
Home Page:
Date: Thursday, 2 August 2001, at 4:41 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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You have a very useful and comprehensive site here! I like it a lot!


Name: Jonathan
E-Mail: zugzwang@swordmoon.com
City/State: New Hampshire
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 13 May 2001, at 7:54 a.m. .
How you found us: Other
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The instructions on Endgame Tablebases were just what I have been looking for. It was good to chat with you today too.


Name: Steve Wagstaffe
E-Mail: getsteve1@hotmail.com
City/State: United Kingdom
Home Page:
Date: Saturday, 28 April 2001, at 1:50 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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I browsed here looking at the possibility of organizing my chess world. A floating window opened and I was able to talk to Aaron, I think, the webmaster anyway. This was a fantastic opportunity, interrupted by a broken connection.

The floating window occupied by an attending webmaster or site expert is new to me. I want to find out more.

Thanks for the site, I can't comment yet. I am still bowled over by the floating human chat window!! Steve W.


Name: phill toth
E-Mail: pjt61@bigpond.com
City/State: australia
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 15 April 2001, at 2:03 p.m.
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Name: Ulrich Tuerke
E-Mail: utuerke@hotmail.com
City/State: Frankfurt area
Home Page:
Date: Friday, 6 April 2001, at 7:03 p.m
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron,
very interesting page !
You've done a lot of useful and acribic work
Good succes, Uli


Name: Arild Fredriksen
E-Mail: chessplayer@winning.com
City/State: Norway
Home Page:
Date: Monday, 2 April 2001, at 4:08 p.m
How you found us: Other
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Aaron
Thank you for the FAQ - exellent work!
Best regards
-af-


Name: Dann Corbit
E-Mail: dcorbit@solutionsiq.com
City/State: Federal Way, WA; USA
Home Page:
Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2001, at 3:32 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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Wonderful FAQ. Thank goodness you wrote it, because I am far too lazy to attempt such a thing.


Name: Frank Quisinsky
E-Mail: Quisinsky@in-trier.de
City/State: Trier, Germany
Home Page:
Date: Sunday, 28 January 2001, at 5:37 p.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron,

I hope that a lot of "Winboarder" visit your great webpage. I like your FAQ idea. I wish you good luck with your webpage.

Also a "little" :-)) "Winboarder"
Frank


Name: Harold Roig
E-Mail: 2307jra@comb.es
City/State: Catalonia
Home Page:
Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2001, at 5:14 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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I would like to give my sincely congratulations for your page. It is very useful, and

I hope you to follow helping the user-winboard of over the world. Thank you.


Name: Volker Pittlik
E-Mail: volker.pittlik@gmx.net
City/State: Berlin, Germany
Home Page:
Date: Monday, 22 January 2001, at 2:44 a.m.
How you found us: Other
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Hi Aaron,

thanks for your excellent contribution to the "winboard commuinity"

Volker