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Subject: Re: Automatic comp play on ICC

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 21:49:49 03/04/06

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On March 05, 2006 at 00:44:07, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On March 05, 2006 at 00:01:36, Dona Kasand wrote:
>
>>Some help please!
>>I have for some time now been trying unsuccessfully to get engines to play
>>automatically on ICC. I have a paid ICC computer account which I can manually
>>play on via Blitzen.2.5. However, when I log in to ICC using  Chesspartner 5.3
>>to play automatically, as soon as I issue a seek or match command, either
>>manually or automatically,  I get a message  on ICC that I should use Blitzen .
>>That seek or match command is not  registered on the server. If I log in as a
>>guest using the same Chesspartner 5.3 there is no problem with the engine
>>playing automatically or with Chesspartner 5.3 issuing automatic seeks. Clearly
>>there are many comp accounts on ICC that play automatically and unattended, so
>>there must be a way! Any advice? I have not been able to get any answers from
>>ICC itself.
>
>I saw this on someone else's account who asked me for help during CCT8 - I would
>talk to Zek or another admin if you can find one online.

This is usually due to the fact that it is a trial account -- and during the
week trial the server requires BlitzIn software be used.  This is probably not a
good idea for (C)omputer accounts.

-elc.



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