HELP

Some help... 1. Other help 2. FICS help. Personal notes. All help files are in FICS page.

A quick look

Commands:
help, tell, match, rematch, seek, unseek, accept, decline, exl, finger, observe, unobserve, adjourn.

Bots(or TD's)	Description
Abuse	Finger note 1: Email: abuse@freechess.org - No attachments please. We cannot read them. Finger note 3: If your opponent disconnected in the middle of a game, see "help disconnection". Adjudicate handles disconnection abuse. Finger note 5: All other instances of abuse should be sent to the abuse committee, either by message or email. Be advised that for security reasons, we do not accept mail attachments. If you send an email, please sign it. Make sure to tell us: your handle, real name and email registered on the account. We cannot guess who you are.
Analysisbot	Finger note 2: This bot provides both interactive (when examining or observing a game), and post-game computer analysis (annotation)
BabasChess	BabasChess is a new Fics client for Windows
chLog	Channel Logger
ChannelBot	Provides additional channels
ComputerAbuse	finger note 1: 1: Please message this account with reports of known or suspected use of computer playing engines by registered players who are not properly labelled as computers.
GameBot	keeps track of all games played on FICS
LectureBot	gives automated lectures
mamer	Tournament Bot
notesBot	Bot to search user finger notes
ObserveBot	observing games according to your preferences
OpenLib	ics statistic gathering bot
puzzlebot	Finger note 1: I have 11794 mate and tactics problems for you. I have 775017 problems served so far.
Sibylle	Answers to questions about FICS
statbot	Finger note 1: I provide game, rating and RD statistics. Try "tell statbot help" or: 2: finger [handle] : shows statistics for given user
STCRobot	STCRobot * STC BUNCH Data Collection Account; http://stcbunch.net FICS CHANNEL: 90 stcbunch.net admins: blkmagic, Pawnadian
SurveyBot	Bot which purpose is to establish a relation between standard FICS rating
relay	relays games(played outside the server)
RelayInfo	Being used to provided users the Current Relay Schedule
tbot	monitors FICS tournaments
TeamLeague	channeltell: TeamLeague(TD)(90): Are you interested in playing some slow time control chess in a friendly atmosphere? Join FICS TeamLeague. Team registration for T50 will soon be open. See at http://teamleague.org. for details/updates Chief admin for Teamleague: jaberwock ?
TScheduleBot	works like tbot
WatchBot	stores comments made during the game
Wesbot	Another lecturing bot, works like LectureBot
wildBot	play additional wild variants

TD's (Bots), FICS

=TD

To see all bots; td list: 84 names; some of them are written down:

finger Sibylle

TD note 1: Do you have a question about FICS? I might have the answer! [to the question:]

tell Sibylle What means TD?

[The bot answers:] (told Sibylle) :Sibylle(TD) :TD is short for Tournament Director. Computers that are ran not to play, but to provide some other service can be TDs. For a list of TD accounts type "=TD". Finger the individual accounts for more information, eg "finger mamer" or "finger puzzlebot"

finger wildBot

finger note 2: With my help you can play additional wild variants finger note 3: Currently implemented: Three checks (aka wild 25)

finger ObserveBot

A bot to help you observing games according to your preferences.

tell observebot set formula blitz & (avg_rating > 1800)

(set formula)

Finger chLog

finger note 1: Hi, I am Channel Logger, written by seberg, at your service.

tell chlog help

CHANNEL LOGGER HELP: Welcome to chLog. I log some channels for a moving 120 minute history.

xtell chlog show 50 -t 90

Channel 50 log for the last 90 minutes

finger statbot

statistics

finger puzzlebot

puzzles

finger endgamebot

like puzzlebot, end-games

finger GameBot

1: gamebot keeps track of all games played on FICS. It stores all games except bughouse and guest games. It has stored 154,289,656 games so far.

tell gamebot help show

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finger Analysisbot

analysis

finger LectureBot

finger note 2: a program written by toddmf that gives automated lectures! +channel 67 to join the lecture channel.

finger FicsTeamBot

team game bot

finger mamer

Tournament Bot

finger notesBot

You can search user finger notes with it

finger OpenLib

ics statistic gathering bot

tell OpenLib help winloss -t

Displays daily statistics about wins/losses of given player

finger relay

use "tell relay help commands" to find more about relay commands

finger RelayInfo

This account exists to provide users the Current Relay Schedule

tell RelayInfo show

To see the Current Relay Schedule

finger SurveyBot

This is a bot which purpose is to establish a relation between standard FICS rating and...

finger tbot

finger note 1: tbot monitors FICS tournaments for problems, and provides some tools for TMs

tell tbot info

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tell tbot today

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tell tbot tomorrow

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Finger BabasChess

finger note 1: BabasChess is a new Fics client for Windows. It is being developed by RRaf ("finger RRaf")

tell BabasChess help

for a list of commands

tell BabasChess stats

interface statistics over all recorded users

tell BabasChess salute on

about a minute after you logged on, the bot will autosalute you with a shout

Finger TeamLeague

Finger note 2: Please visit www.teamleague.org for more information about teamleague or ask in channel 101, which is the teamleague channel!

finger TScheduleBot

works like tbot

finger WatchBot

Finger note 2: My main purpose is to store comments made during the game(whispers/kibitzes) so they can be reviewed by the players after the game. See "http://mekk.waw.pl/mk/watchbot" for details.

tell WatchBot help

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tell WatchBot help [command]

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finger ChannelBot

Finger note 1: I provide additional channels. You can even password protect them. Finger note 2: This project is not affiliated with the server in any way.

ginfo

ginfo [user_name|game_number]

highlight

set highlight [0-15]

idlenotify

+|-|= idlenotify [user]

Internet Chess Library

An anonymous ftp archive at ftp://ftp.freechess.org/chess (this file may be somewhat out of date. )

smoves

displays moves of an archived game

sposition

displays the last position of an archived game

intro_information

DISPLAYING INFORMATION. There are several types of information that are available about users, games and the server. You can have this information displayed to you by using various commands

llogons [number]

Shows the last 200 or so logons/logoffs for the server.(3 minute period)

logons [user]

Lists the last 10 or so logons for a user

say

communicate with your current (last) opponent

switch

request that you and your opponent change sides (colors)

pending

Displays all non-declined, pending offers from other players to you and from you to other players

intro_playing. LOCATING AN OPPONENT

There are several ways to locate an opponent. (a) To see who is available for a match, type "who a" or its alias "players" ("p" for short). (b) You use a cshout to say "I would like to play a game of type ... ." (c) You can place an ad using the "seek" command. You can also read the ads of other users; read "help sought" for details.

cshout

This command send a message to all users who are open to hear cshouts. You, as the sender, will see displayed the number of users who heard your message."cshout" has an alias of "^". SPECIAL NOTES: (a) "cshout" should be used ONLY for chess-related messages, such as questions about chess or announcing being open for certain kinds of chess matches. Use "shout" for non-chess messages.

v_silence

Setting silence to 1 will turn off shouts, cshouts and channel tells while you play, examine or observe a game so that communications to you (and words on your screen) will be less distracting to you. When you are not playing, examining or observing a game, you will hear shouts, cshouts and channel tells again. Your settings for the shout, cshout and chanoff variables, or channel settings, will not be affected.

v_chanoff

This variable allows you to stop hearing tells to channels without having to remove all of the channels from your channel list. Type "set chanoff 1" to stop hearing channel tells, and type "set chanoff 0" to start hearing them again. Your channel list will not be affected. Users in a channel but who are not listening to it will be marked with {} when you use the inchannel command.

it [message]

This command sends a message to all persons open to hear shouts. "It" is similar to "shout" in that regard. However, with "it" your chess server name (or "handle") is always the first word of the message. Also, the "it" message may be preceded by various symbols depending on the chess server being used. The symbol string --> is typical. This command has two aliases: "i" and ":". Here is an example: if your handle is HANDEL and you type "it thinks this server is great!", users will see the following message displayed --> HANDEL thinks this server is great! You, as the sender, will see the following -- HANDEL thinks this server is great! (shouted to ## players) where ## is the number of users who received the message.

manual_vars

This manual includes the various help files that describe the variables you can set. The first section is the "variables" help file, followed by the various "v_" help files. This manual will be updated from time to time. The individual help files may provide the most current information, so please refer to them as warranted

usage manual

This is the FICS "usage" manual. It contains all of the "usage" texts that are displayed when the command a user types is misformatted. The general structure of each "usage" entry is as follows: Command: [command] Purpose: [purpose] Usage: [usage] Examples: [example]/dd>

replay

Usage: replay [seconds] Automatically advance through an examined game.

resume

Usage: resume The "resume" command will issue match challenges to all users currently on the server and available with whom you have a stored game, where "available" means open to matches and not involved with another game (see "help who" regarding the "who a" option). For example, if you have 5 stored games and 2 of those opponents are on the server now and available to play, each of those two users will receive a match challenge from you. To see which games you have stored, use the "stored" command.

S T C

S T C B U N C H on F I C S, Slow Time Control Chess on the Internet. http://www.happychess.org/stcbunch/index.html http://www.stcbunch.org The Mission of the STC BUNCH is simply to provide a way for players on the internet who like to play a leisurely and thoughtful game of Chess, the means and opportunity to meet with and be in the company of others who enjoy slow chess. It is our goal to support these players through fellowship, friendship, a comparison ratings service, a monthly newsletter, email exchange, and the very best available technology deployed to service the membership.

system aliases

There are many system aliases that everyone has by default; you do not need to set them up, they are already there. Where more than one alias for the same command are available, all are listed.

busy

Usage: set busy string This command sets your "busy" string. When your busy string is set and people "tell" something to you, they will receive your busy string as a response. Your busy string (if on) will also be displayed below your name in your 'finger' notes. Examples of busy strings you might use are: set busy is really busy right now. set busy will be back in 5 minutes. set busy will be idle for a while... NOTE: a busy string is only temporary. Typing any command cancels your "busy" status; you don't have to clear it yourself. Because a busy string is only temporary, it is useful to have an alias for a busy string if you intend to use it frequently. For example: alias idle set busy is away from the keyboard right now

statistics

Usage: statistics [name] Displays some statistics on players. If no name is specified it gives detailed stats on yourself, plus general info on all active players. Apart from the specified player's ratings (as in finger), you will see your ranking (all, humans only and computers only) ans when your rating becomes inactive (RD < 80). Listed also are the server stats: mean (average), standard deviation (sd) for all, humans and computers, computed over all active players in the specified category.
The system alias for statistics is "stats".
See Also: alias, rd, totals, uptime

Ranking display

hrank
Usage: hrank [user [b][s][l][w][z][B][S]]
hrank m [b][s][l][w][z][B][S]
hrank m-n [b][s][l][w][z][B][S]
The hrank command is used to see where a user's rating stands with respect to other human users on the server -- computers will be excluded from the rankings. You can also see the hrank of users who have a certain rating, and the ratings of users who have a certain range of hranks. There are four ways to use the hrank command:

(a) Hranking for a *user*: Use "hrank user" to obtain the ranking for a given user and all users with nearby rankings; example: "hrank carlsbad"
(b) Users with a given *rating*: Use "hrank m" to see the hrank of a user with rating 'm'; example: "hrank 1845"
(c) Users with a *range of hranks*: Use "hrank m-n" to see the ratings of users whose hranks are from 'm' to 'n'; example: "hrank 100-150"
(d) *Your* hranking: If "hrank" is used alone, your hrankings will be displayed.
Related commands
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crank -- rankings for computers only
rank -- rankings for all users
best -- gives the top 20 in rankings
cbest -- same as best, but only for computers
hbest -- same as best, but only for humans

histograms

hrstat, Usage: hrstat [B|L|S|b|l|s|w|x|z]
The "hrstat" command produces a histogram showing the distribution of the rating of all human players with a RD lower than 80.
rstat, Usage: rstat [B|L|S|b|l|s|w|x|z]
The "rstat" command produces a histogram showing the distribution of the rating of all players with a RD lower than 80

User lists

who, Usage: who [o][r][f][a][R][U][s][b][w][z][L][S][B][A][l][t][v][n][#i#j] Useful examples:
who -- lists all users logged on
who a -- lists the users logged on who are available for matches
who U -- lists the unregistered users logged on
who 15 -- lists the top one-fifth (20%) of users logged on
The who command displays a list of users who are connected to the server
according to the parameters you give. Typing "who" alone, without any
arguments, will list all users according to their blitz ratings.

USERS TO DISPLAY [default: all users logged on]
o: Only open players.
r: Only players for rated matches.
f: Only free players (not playing a game).
a: Only available players (open & free).
R: Only registered players.
U: Only unregistered players.
#i#j: Only a portion of the who list; #j divides the list into j segments; #i will display the i-th segment; #i cannot be higher than #j; (there are three shortcuts: "who 1" works the same as "who 13", "who 2" works the same as "who 23" and "who 3" works the same as "who 33"). [See the special note below.]

ORDER OF DISPLAY
s: Standard rating.
b: Blitz rating. [this is the default]
w: Wild rating
z: craZyhouse rating
L: Lightning rating.
S: Suicide Chess rating.
B: Bughouse rating.
A: Lists players alphabetically.
l: Same as above but without rating/game info. [lower case "L"]

FORMAT OF DISPLAY
t: Terse. [this is the default]
v: Verbose.
n: Win-loss record.

intro_information(not command)

DISPLAYING INFORMATION
There are several types of information that are available about users, games and the server. You can have this information displayed to you by using various commands.

SERVER INFORMATION

command ----- information
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date - Current date and time at the server
help - Describes a command, displays useful information, or lists all commands and their help file topics alphabetically
info - Lists all "information" help files for non-commands
llogons - Lists the last 30 or so logons/logoffs
logons - Lists the last 10 or so logons for a user
news - Lists recent news items about the server
statistics - Displays information about ratings
uptime - Displays how long the server has been running since its last startup, and various server statistics and parameters
ustat - Displays server statistics for the last 24 hours
Also, the "totals" help file gives updated information about registered and active users on the server.

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