═══ 1. abort ═══ Command : abort Args : none Sends a request to your opponent to abort the game in progress, thus discarding it. If your opponent issued a similar request at most one move ago, the game ends with no ratings adjustment. If you want to save the game (in order to continue it later), you should adjourn it. If your opponent is out of time, you can use abort, and the game will be immediately aborted without waiting for the opponent to type "abort". Aborted games are listed in your history, for examination or mailing. See also: adjourn, pending aics% help abuse Indulging in any of the following is considered cheating or abuse and will result in deletion of your account, loss of games, or loss of rating points. (Special circumstances may occur that cause an incident described below to not be abuse. These cases will be handled at admins' discretion). 1. Disconnecting in a lost position and failing to return to finish the game: People doing this are placed on the "abusers" list. They automatically lose any game from which they disconnect. The above applies to rated games only. This list can be seen with "=abuser" or "help abusers". 2. Refusing to resume an adjourned game when the opponent asks. If you are a victim of this, read "help adjudicate". 3. Intentionally losing games to another user so as to inflate the other person's rating. Accepting the wins from the player who is intentionally losing is also abuse. 4. Playing the same player repeatedly during your provisional period in order to get an artificially high rating. Try not to play the same player more than 4 rated games during your provisional period (first 20 rated games). Playing most of your games against provisional players. 5. Having more than one account on ICS without informing the administrators about it. 6. Using a computer without telling the administrators and without putting a note in your finger: People have the right to know whether they are playing a human or a compute r. 7. Directing profanity at another user. Please note that lag-flagging is NOT abuse. Read "help lagflag". See also: abusers, computers, atmosphere ═══ 2. abusers ═══ aics% help abusers AfricanAmerican BEEFCAKE bolle carlitos Excalibur hey Johann jst kalyan KMarx Lambrusco NYKNICK Petrov SantasJaguar SCACCHIC Tension TNK tsipen Wizzard Zachar ═══ 3. accept ═══ Command : accept Args : "accept" can be used to start a match against the player who challenged you using the time controls he proposed. If you want to ask for different time controls, use the "match" command. If more than one player challenges you, you need to supply the desired player's name as an argument. See also: match, pending aics% help ACM The ACM's 24th International Computer Chess Championship June 25-27, 1994. The contenders (in seeding order): Deep Thought II (DT) Special purpose VLSI Cray Blitz (CRAY) 4 processor Cray C90 *Socrates (*SOC) 512 processor CM-5 M Chess Pro (MC) Pentium 60Mhz Wchess (WC) Pentium 90Mhz Zarkov (ZAR) HP735 (87 MIPS) ("HP-PRISC") Now (NOW) i486 50Mhz Spector (SPEC) i486DX2 66Mhz Evaluator (EV) i486DX4 100Mhz Innovation (IN) Mac PowerPC The following ICS players have been created for this tournament. finger them for more information: CrayBlitz DeepThoughtII Evaluator Innovation MChess NOW Spector StarSocrates WChess Zarkov Round 1 results: white vs. black score --------------------------------- DT vs. ZAR 1 - 0 NOW vs. CRAY 1/2 - 1/2 (the only upset in this round) *SOC vs. SPEC 1 - 0 EV vs. MC 0 - 1 WC vs. IN 1 - 0 Round 2 results: (starting at 7pm EST Sat Jun 25 1994) MC vs. DT 1 - 0 (An upset! caused by power failure) CRAY vs. Zarkov 0 - 1 (An upset!) WC vs. *SOC 0 - 1 SPEC vs. NOW 1/2 - 1/2 EV vs. IN 0 - 1 Round 3 results: DT vs. WC 1 - 0 CB vs. IN 1 - 0 *SOC vs. MC 1 - 0 ZAR vs. NOW 1 - 0 EVAL vs. SPEC 1 - 0 Round 4 results: *SOC vs. DT 0 - 1 WC vs. CB 1 - 0 NOW vs. EVAL 1 - 0 ZAR help addres ses vs. MC 1/2 - 1/2 SPEC vs. IN 0 - 1 Round 5 pairings: MC vs. DT ZAR vs. *SOC CB vs. SPEC EV vs. WC IN vs. NOW aics% The Internet Chess Servers are services that you can telnet to and use to play chess with many other players around the world, both human and machine. You can connect to one of the servers with the command: telnet 5000 Current addresses: US-Server: chess.lm.com 5000 (192.231.221.16 5000) Euro-Server: anemone.daimi.aau.dk 5000 (130.225.18.58 5000) Dutch-Server: dds.hacktic.nl 5000 (193.78.33.69 5000) Aussie-Server: lux.latrobe.edu.au 5000 (131.172.4.3 5000) Other backup US-servers (in case of lag or downtime on main server) telnet iris4.metiu.ucsb.edu (128.111.246.4) 5000 telnet coot.lcs.mit.edu (18.52.0.70) 5000 telnet news.panix.com (198.7.0.1) 5000 FICS (a different implementation of the ICS) telnet chess.pitt.edu (136.142.81.40) 5000 Ftp server ftp ics.onenet.net (164.58.253.10) ftp ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de (134.100.220.2) (mirror site) Log on as anonymous and give e-mail address as password To see a sample ftp session, do: help ftp (on ICS) USCF book selections Up-to-date info: finger tange@daimi.aau.dk (euro) finger wallez@lune.enst-bretagne.fr (euro) finger chess@ics.onenet.net (US) And... for a change of pace: chinese chess: coolidge.harvard.edu 5555 (128.103.28.15 5555) backgammon: fraggel65.mdstud.chalmers.se 4321 (129.16.235.153) othello: faust.uni-paderborn.de 5000 (131.234.28.29 5000) go: hellspark.wharton.upenn.edu 6969 (165.123.8.103 6969) go ftp: bsdserver.ucsf.edu (128.218.80.68)