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Subject: Re: About ICC Trial Membershipt (kind of Offtopic)

Author: Tony Thomas Karippa

Date: 15:01:24 03/02/06

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On March 02, 2006 at 03:29:29, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On March 01, 2006 at 22:46:24, Tony Thomas Karippa wrote:
>
>>I wanted to watch the games during CCT8 so I downloaded blitzen and got a trial
>>membership for a week. CCT8 was great but after that I got bored and started
>>playing against other people/computers. All of the five bullet games I played, I
>>lost. I guess bullet is just too fast for my head. Out of the 55 blitz games I
>>played(most of them were against computers, bacchoy, strongchoy, wimpe etcc &
>>Mscp) I won 27 and lost 26 and draw 2 of them. Most of the time I lost because
>>those computers didnt follow 3 fold repetition or 50 move rule or any rules for
>>that matter. One game against MSCP was around 160 moves if I remember correctly,
>>I just decided to resign. Anyway, today I played couple of games and then a
>>message popped up. It said "apocalypse your trial membership has been dated back
>>to Feb26, now you have to pay". Does it happened to anyone else? Shoot, I havent
>>tried it for a whole week, I am not signing up. ;-)
>>If anyone has any idea what went wrong let me know, my screenname or handle on
>>ICC was apocalypse.
>>Thanks.
>
>***** DRAW *****
>
>Command : draw
>Examples: "draw"      -- offers or claims a draw in your current game
>          "draw Joe"  -- offers a draw in your adjourned game with Joe
>
>This command ends the game in a draw if any of the following conditions
>are true:
>
>  * Your opponent offered you a draw and you have not moved since then.
>
>  * The current position has occurred at least twice before.  Everything
>    must be EXACTLY the same, including the person to move, castling
>    privileges, en passant possibilites, etc.
>
>  * The last 50 moves (50 moves for each person) do not contain any
>    captures or pawn moves.
>
>If none of these conditions hold, then the command offers a draw to the
>opponent.
>
>Remember, you must type "draw" to claim a draw by "repetition" or the
>"50-move rule".  The game does not end automatically.  This is the same
>as in tournament chess, where you must ask the TD or your opponent for
>the draw.
>
>regards
>Andy
Thanks Andy, I will use that advice if I ever sign up.
Tony



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