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Subject: Re: Question about ICC (corrected) <OT>

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:58:42 08/09/02

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On August 09, 2002 at 12:44:09, Brian Richardson wrote:

>On August 09, 2002 at 10:54:52, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 2002 at 10:49:15, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>On August 09, 2002 at 10:47:04, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>>
>>>Do you have to buy two separate memberships to ICC if YOU (human) want to play
>>>sometimes and have your computer play at other times (e.g., while you are out or
>>>asleep)?
>>>
>>>
>>>[Sorry, I guess it's called ICC and not ICS.]
>>
>>http://www.chessclub.com/help/computers
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Steffen.
>
>I think ICC's policy changed around Feb 2000.  Computer (author?) accounts are
>free and you can certainly manually play under the (C) flagged account, but of
>course, all of the games and stats (history, library, etc) are only saved under
>the one account.  Sometimes 2 accounts are useful, but I suppose you could use a
>guest account to monitor the (C) account, but guest accounts have limited
>functionality.  I maintain a normal account for other things, even though I only
>play very rarely (I'm terrible).
>
>Brian Richardson (Tinker)


Is there some rule such as, "If you pay for a human account, will be given a
second, free, computer-only account upon request."?  Or can anybody anytime
register for free with any computer??

And if computer accounts are free, what's to stop people from reverse-cheating
and playing as a human under a free computer account?




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