Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 15:37:18 08/10/02
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On August 09, 2002 at 17:58:42, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? You have to pay for a human account. You have to pay for a computer account. If you already have a (payed!) human account, you may get a free computer account if you are the author and/or it plays not so strong, variants or other things where computers are still not as much represented. Hope this clears things up. :) Georg
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