--- Chess.net Beginners Manual ---
Version 2.1
This is a beginners chess.net manual.
Users who want to improve their stay,
as well as learn basic commands should
read this manual.
Red =
Topics Green = Server commands
1. --- Need Help ---
There are several ways to
get help for chess.net
A. The "Assist" command is
used to send a question to any online Guide or Administrator.
Usage: Assist
Example: / Assist How do I play a rated game?
B. The second way to receive help is to send a
question to the "Help" room.
To use the help room, first you need to
type : '/Listen Help'
This allows you to recieve all messages
that go on in the "Help" room.
Example: /fsay Help "How do I play a game"
Always remember our staff team is always here to help
you best use chess.net.
If you have any questions feel free to contact any online Administrator, TD, or
Guide.
They will gladly assist you, or find somebody who can.
2. --- Tags and Symbols ---
There are many symbols on
chess.net, the most basic are the following:
(*)
= Chess.net administrator - who take care of all issues revolving chess.net
(G)
= Chess.net Guide - These are staff who answer assist questions.
(TD)
= Tournament director - These are staff who run the tournaments you join.
(C)
= Computer account - These are computer accounts
(CA)
= Computer Abusers - These are people who used chess engines to CHEAT!
(LM)
= League Manager - These are players who run a particular league.
(LR)
= League Reporter - These are players who report league games.
X
= This
X marked over a Circle means the player is closed for match request
O
= Open for match requests.
Pawn
= Currently playing
a match.
Crown
= Grandmaster or Woman
Grandmaster.
(Golden) Pawn = Grandmaster playing a match.
3. --- Staff position
Explanations ---
Administrator: Online Administrators can be contacted many different ways. You may either scroll down the name list and search for a user marked with the (*) symbol and a lightning bolt graphic, or, you may type ‘/who *’ and that will show the On-duty Administrators, and you may follow up with a tell, or otherwise, you may type ‘/assist I need an admin’. In this case, your request will be sent to all online Administrators and one shall be with you as soon as possible. However, to make it easier for them to assist you, you can customize your assist by typing what it is exactly you need help with, an example of this includes; if you are stuck in a game, you may type ‘/assist Admin, I am stuck in a game’. This will enable them to help you as quickly and as effectively as possible. Please note, that Administrators can get very busy at times, thus, we ask for your patience in the event the Administrator you are contacting is busy. Administrators will always be at your service.
Guide: As with the Administrator position, you may contact a Guide the same ways as stated above, however, Guides have limited commands and are primarily focused on Server and Interface related questions. You will find that Guides are marked with a (G) symbol following their user handle, and a G graphic to the right of their user handle. To see all online Guides, you may type ‘/who G’ (Please Note: The G must be a capital G.) Guides can also be contacted via the ‘/assist’ command. Guides are always at your service.
Tournament Director: The Tournament Directors of Chess.net are
marked with a TD graphic and a (TD) following their user handle. Their job is
to primarily focus on running tournaments for the users. Tournaments can be
requested through an automated bot named TDr. Please type ‘/tell TDr help’ for a list of commands and how to request a
tournament. Online Tournament Directors can be seen by typing ‘/who D’ (Please Note: The D must be a capital D.) You may also
request a tournament by contacting them using the ‘/tell’ command
4. --- Modes ---
There
are 2 modes on chess net a chat mode and a play or
as we say command mode.
You
Can switch modes by using the " ESC " key on your
keyboard or by clicking on the Enter Command on the bottom
left corner of the chess.net interface.
Command Mode:
This
allows you to seek games abort games adjourn games and look at your statistics
and others and also your rated record vs another player.
Chat
Mode:
This
allows you to talk in various rooms to chat in a room you must first listen to
the room ie /listen politics then to chat there you must type /fsay
politics
--- 5. Chat Commands ---
Below is an explanation on the several ways to chat on the server:
Shout:
The '/shout <Message>
Fsay:
The
Tell:
The '/tell
Please Note: The admin staff cannot see your chat, however If you
use profanity and the person it is addressed to has his swear filter set to 3
an Administrator will be alerted of the incident and action may be taken
against you.
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6. Room messages ---
In order that the public rooms do not get cluttered up Chess.net
provides a number of rooms where specific topics may be discussed.
A. To list all different rooms type /ListChannel
B. To listen to a room type /Listen
To send a message to a room
(You are listening to) type /fsay
C. To stop listening to a room type /mute
Examples:
For example, to listen to the "Bishop" room type /'Listen Bishop'
To send a message "Hello all" to the bishop
room, you would type /'fsay Bishop Hello
all'
To stop listening to the "Bishop" room type /mute Bishop
Please note that in the case of controversial subjects
such as religion or politics the admin staff will insist on them being
discussed in the rooms set aside for them so as not to disturb our members who
don’t want to have their screens cluttered up with discussions they are
uninterested in.
7 7. --- Swear Filters --- ( Safety
Features )
This feature allows the server
to filter tells from other users that
contain profanity.
There are basically 4 levels
of filtering:
Level 0 - This has no
filtering. You will receive all tells sent to you.
Level 1 - This is the default
setting, and in this level, swear words will appear to you in a scrambled form.
Level 2 - Tells containing
profanity will not be received by you.
Level 3 - Tells containing
profanity will not come to you. The Chess.net administrators will be
notified that the user sent you a tell containing profanity.
To set your filter preference,
type /set swear
8. --- Playing Games ---
There are several ways to
play a game on chess.net
A. The first way to play a
game would be the
"Seek" command.
The seek command is used to send a match a match request to all users open.
Usage: Seek
B. The second way is the "Match" command. The match command is used to send
a particular challenge to a specific player, if he/she is open for challenges.
Usage: Match
C. The last way is to
use the "Pending" command to see all challenges you set out,
and challenges that came in to you.
Usage: Pending
Example: /Pending
To accept or decline a match
offer type /accept <#> to accept OR /Decline <#> to
decline
All challenges will have a number, they will be located to the farthest left of
each challenge
Example: /Accept 10 (Accepting a challenge with the challenge
number 10)
Example: /Decline 10 (Declining a challenge with the challenge
number 10)
To set yourself so that NOBODY
can challenge you to any games use the "Open" command.
To set yourself back open so that you can receive challenges use the "Open" command, again.
Example: /Open (You are now open to receive match request)
Example: /Open (You are now closed and wont receive match request
Please Note:
Challenges are set to rated unless otherwise set. Eg. If I wanted to seek a 3 0
rated match, I would type ‘/seek
3 0 r’.
You should then see the following:
Issuing: Aussie (1504)
(Sent to 50 online players)
To play a "unrated"
game of chess add unrated into your seek or match .
Example: /seek 3 0 unrated
Example: /ma _Z_ 3 0 unrated
9 9. --- Tournaments ---
A. As a chess.net
member you are allowed to join tournaments
To join a tournament you would use the "join" command, followed by the tourney number.
For
example, lets say there is a 3 0 swiss tournament and the tourney number is 10,
you would type:
Example:
/join 10 (To
enter the tournament)
B. To view tournament
data you use the following commands:
Type '/TV C' (To see the tournament crosstables)
Type '/TV S'
(To see the tournament standings)
Type '/TV P' (To see the tournament pairings)
Type '/TV'
(To see tournament info - rounds, pairings, TD, etc.
C. To leave a tournament
type /Leave then /visit public
NOTE: Make sure you ask the TD of the tournament
first.
10. --- User Commands ---
Here we are listing basic
user commands that will help in the future.
finger: This
command shows you info on yourself or another player to use this command type /finger (handle)
abort: This command allows you
to cancel the game if only 1 move has been made total to do this command type /abort
adjourn: This allows you
to store a game you are playing as long as your opponent agrees to do this
command type /adjourn
resume: This is the command
used to resume and adjourned game to resume you type /resume (opponents handle)
stored: This command tells you
have many games you have stored to use this command type /stored
judge: Judge This command is
used to resolve a stored game you do this if you wish to clear a stored
game the format to send a game in is / judge (
opp handle) ( win.loss.draw) ( short explanation)
message: This command sends a
message to user if they are online or not to do this type /message (handle) (text)
visit: This command is
so you can go to specific rooms here to use it type /visit (room name)
listen: This command allows
you to listen to specific rooms to use it type /listen
(room name)
General Chat: This is a
specific room and has special way to talk in it you type /listen general chat
to hear see the text but to put text in the room all you type is /chat (text)
notify: This is a list where
you may add friends and tell when there are non chess net to do this type
/ +notify (handle) to remove someone type /-notify
(handle)
censor: This list blocks
people on it from speaking to you and from sending you game seeks to use this
type /+censor (handle) to remove type /-censor (handle)
note admins can not be censored
noplay: This blocks users from
playing you but they can still send you text to use this type /+noplay (handle) and to remove /-noplay (handle)
Gnotify: This list shows you
when people are playing a game that you have on the list
type /+gnotify (handle) to add and /-gnotify (handle) to remove
Znotify:This command shows you
who on chess net has you on their notify list when they are on chess net type /znotify to use
who: This command shows all
users online type /who to use it
who B: This command lists
bughouse team /who B to use it
bugwho: This command shows
people available become a bughouse partner /bugwho is how to use it
whisper: This command is
used when observing a game to talk and not disturb the players /whisper (text) is how to use
kibitz: This command is used
to talk to all watching a game including the players to use type /kibitz (text)
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11. --- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): ---
Q: I cannot see my
opponents clock etc. ?
A: This problem is very common to xp users, and the fix is very simple. Click
on OPTIONS, LOOK AND FEEL, then click on the + sign in "Fonts, Colors and
Textures," go to SECONDARY BACKGROUND, click on it and then move your
cursor into the background and left click to change it.
Q:I have downloaded Chess.net
for Windows (CNFW), so what's next?
A:Once you've installed Chess.net for Windows, run it by double-clicking the
shortcut on your desktop. If you already have a registered account, click
on ADD HANDLE and fill in the required information and click OK. Click on
the handle you registered and click OK. If you are unregistered, click on
guest and click ok.
Q:Why am I always a
guest? How do I register an account?
A:To register an account, connect to Chess.net and type ‘/register’. An on-duty administrator will register you.
Q:My opponents time is out,
what shall I do now?
A:For you to win on time, you must click on the FLAG button. To do this
automatically, type /set
autoflag 1.
Q:How do I set up a computer
engine at Chess.net?
A:Setting a computer engine up on Chess.net is actually quite simple. Please
visit http://chessengines.cjb.net/enginesetup.htm for help on setting up
an engine. Please note that you may only have a computer account with
the permission of the admin staff. You may type ‘/fi computerapply’ to see the requirements for registering a computer account.
12 12. --- Basic Rules ---
Thank you for subscribing
to chess.net. In order that all our members may enjoy their time with us we
have some ground rules that you are deemed to have accepted. A more extensive
guide to chess.net regulations can be found on the server. The absolute basics
are:
Unless your account is a nominated computer account you may not use computer
assistance of any kind in rated games.
Except with the prior agreement of the admin staff, a member is only entitled
to one account.
Verbal abuse or discrimination
of any kind will not be tolerated. The admin staff reserve the right to
withdraw speaking privileges from members who do this and disregard warnings
about it. If another member is abusive towards you please bring the matter to
the attention of the admin staff. (Chat rules can be found on the server by
typing /help chat_etiquette).
In the event of persistent
rule breaking by a member, chess.net reserves the right to terminate the
member’s account if the member ignores a final warning about his behaviour.
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we would like to welcome you and wish you Good Luck in your Chess.net
career. If you have any futher questions please feel free to send your
questions to support@chess.net. Have a great day.
Always remember our staff team is always here to help you best use chess.net. If you have any questions feel free to contact any online Administrator, TD, or Guide. They will gladly assist you.
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