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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