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Subject: Re: ICC & FICS & Chessbase-servers games

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 20:58:49 11/03/03

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I'll try to how to get games at playchess. The mechanism you  useexactly depends
on whether you have the fritz7 or fritz8 GUI running as a login client.
In the fritz8 gui it is easiest because the games are autosaved into a file
called "MyInternetKibbitzing.cbh" as you watch them.
But in the Fritz7 GUI the observer must menu/file/save <specify a database> of
an open game board that he is observing.
Now that the technical process of saving the game is explained, you also need to
know how to find a game that you want to save.
The playchess server is partitioned into rooms. Lets say that you are in the
engine room for this example. There is a window pane called games in this and
every room. You can even open an extra games pane if you are using the window to
view a players list. In the games list,which is sortable by rating of black,
rating of white, time started of game, and result of game (eg. 'in progress,'
1-0, 0-1 ) you can choose a game from this window to watch. Select thegame by
double clicking on it. Or also by right-clicking and chosing observe. Once the
game is open, it can be saved to your hard drive-- (in fritz8 it is saved
automatically).
In the players window pane in the engine room, one can determine which engine
each player has loaded. This is useful if you want to folow the behavior of a
particular type of engine. You can select a player by right-clicking on his name
and selecting "follow". Then as he plays, you get to observe his games. You can
save them as they complete--or in fritz8 they are saved automatically.

Hope that is enough info for you to get started. - marc




On November 03, 2003 at 07:13:12, David H. McClain wrote:

>On November 02, 2003 at 16:15:38, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>in terms of playchess.com, you can certainly download all the finished games in
>>the engine room that are still on the server while you are visiting.
>>regarding ICC you visit the history files of the comp players to load their
>>recent  games.
>>
>>
>>On November 02, 2003 at 10:55:53, Jerry Gullstrand wrote:
>>
>>>Someone knows where to download games played on the servers?
>
>Marc,
>
>Could you explain how to obtain games on the Playchess server other than my own?
> I have looked for this option as a member but have not found it.
>
>Thank you.



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