Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 14:59:19 01/27/04
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On January 27, 2004 at 17:02:51, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >Under winboard, apparently kibitzing is done by sending a "tellics kibitz ..." >string. But what if the engine is run as a UCI engine under Arena? Is there an >option in Arena to automatically kibitz the engine's PVs? > >Also, using Arena I cannot use Falcon's own book, and so will settle for a >randomly generated book. But before doing so, I was interested to know whether >someone has already generated a more or less tuned book for Arena, that is >available for use by other engines. > >Last, could anyone please mention the list of commands needed for setting the >engine to play in the tournament on ICC? (yes, this is my first time >participating in an ICC tournament) > >Thanks! Hi Omid, It's well worth going there a day or two before the tournament and playing a few games against other computers, just to be sure that everything works. You can start a game against another player by doing: match opponent time increment For example: match postmodernist 45 10 In general, it is frowned upon for computers to match humans. You should really restrict yourself to playing against other computers, in the first instance. You can see which computer accounts are available by doing: "who C" (no quotes of course!) "who T" shows you all titled players "who" shows you everyone logged in If you *do* want to play against humans, it pays to "advertise". You can do this with the "seek" command: "seek 5 0 r" - this makes you available for a 5min 0second (increment) rated game against anyone who sees your advert. "seek 15 2 u" - advertises your availability for a 15min 2 second unrated game. You can offer up to three seeks. The best way to get help is to ask in channel 64, where the chess programmers hang out: +ch 64 joins you to this channel. You will see channel tells to channel 64 (normally in a different colour). You can pose a question like this: "tell 64 How do I get Falcon to offer seeks after it has finished a game?" If you want to talk to a particular person directly, try: "tell ctid hello andrew" Substitute the person's handle for ctid (which is mine). You can find out about an account or player with the finger command: "finger postmodernist" You can see the last 20 games played by an account with the history command: "history crafty" Most ICC commands can be abbreviated. Try the first two letters. You can get help on anything by typing: "help finger" "help history" "help seek" "help channels" Hope this is helpful Andrew
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