Author: Slater Wold
Date: 14:20:01 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 08:04:53, Albert Silver wrote: >On October 23, 2001 at 18:54:30, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On October 23, 2001 at 18:52:25, Freddie Savage wrote: >> >>>I Just bought chess assistant 6.1 to use on ICC with my computer program but I >>>notice that it disconnects quite a lot from the ICC sever. That wasn't >>>happening when I connected through the rebel Tiger interface. Can anyone help? >>> >>>Regards, >>>Freddie. >> >>ICC will disco you after 60 minutes of inactivity. The Rebel interface disco's >>too, but it connects right back. > >Hmmm.... Never thought of this. If that's the problem happening to Freddie I'm >afraid I have no solution. There is a quick reconnect option in the menu, but it >is a manual one. If you plan to let it run overnight, and this continues to be >an issue I can only suggest you run with another interface at such times until >this gets amended. > >BTW, if you get around to it, I hope you play around with the new Book Editor >brought into 6.1 (not present in 6.0). It's quite powerful with many options >(i.e. controlling various sources of information such as CAP, Tree statistics, >the encyclopedia, and even custom scripts to determine bookbuilding behaviour), >and frankly I suspect mostly powerusers will be making use of it, so any >feedback would be welcome. > > Albert I have recommended to Victor that they make a "Keep Alive" option. ICC doesn't care if someone's logged in for 24 hours, with no games. It's just "protocol". I usually run a macro every 55 minutes to keep me on with Winboard. I have used CA *very* few times on ICC. Slate
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