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Subject: Re: using Arena/FICs

Author: Mike Siler

Date: 16:57:41 05/17/04

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On May 17, 2004 at 19:47:34, Mike Siler wrote:

>On May 17, 2004 at 14:16:20, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>
>>On May 17, 2004 at 13:25:33, Eric Oldre wrote:
>>
>>>I've gotten my engine working under arena and logged into
>>>FICS (under my new computer account). It is accepting
>>>matches from other players and seems
>>>to be running fine. For those of you who want to beat up on
>>>the little guy, i highly recommend the command "match murderhole" :)
>>>
>>>I'd like it to both automatically "seek" matches, and
>>>to perhaps even try to challenge other engines without
>>>my intervention. I didn't see too much in the arena help
>>>file on this issue.
>>
>>For auto seeking after a game has been played you need to create aliases on FICS
>>for example
>>
>>alias gameend seek 2 12
>>alias gameend2 seek 5 12
>>alias gameend3 seek 15
>
>I don't suppose you know how to do it on ICC, which does not have the "alias"
>command?

Nevermind, I just figured it out. For others, you type

+alias gameend seek x y

for whatever time controls you desire.

Michael



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