Sounds kind of like what DWANGO was in the 90's.
Is ICC a "chess site" per se?

That site is just crap, a place to buy hats and t-shirts and those stupid beer "coozies."

That site is just crap, a place to buy hats and t-shirts and those stupid beer "coozies."
That site (ICC) is very difficult to navigate and you can't chat with the honey's the way one can chat with them here on Chess.com. AND well I might be chatting with a 40 year old fat guy for all I know. But anyway Chess.com is way more fun.
So, ICC isn't really a chess site since there is no site. It is just a game server you connect to via some early 1990's style telnet program. There is no ICC "website" like here.
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