autogame.exe plugin readme

Download link at the bottom. This is an older page and everything still applies but the current autogame does more than this as explained on http://www.adam16mr.org/autogame2007.html   and   http://www.adam16mr.org/autogame-logging.html. New features include noidle, rotating away messages, the prime game for those interested, and channel logging.

Install:

a. Create a copy of your Blitzin 2 icon: right-click on the icon and select Copy, then right-click on the desktop and select Paste. If you wish, you can also rename this new icon by right-clicking on it and selecting Rename.

b. Edit the icon's command line: right-click on the new icon, select Properties, click on the Shortcut tab, and go to the textfield labelled Target.

c. Specify the filename of the plugin: in the Target textfield, after c:\blitzin2\Blitzin2.exe (or similar), add a space, then add /plugin=autogame.exe. This assumes the plugin is in the same directory as Blitzin 2; if not, you need to specify the full path as well, for example /plugin=c:\blitzin2\myplugins\autogame.exe. If the path has a space in it for example 'program files' you need to put the whole path in quotes. example /plugin="c:\program files\internet chess\blitzin\autogame.exe".

d. Two or more plugins can be installed for example by adding /plugin=autogame.exe /plugin=observer1.exe to the target line. This would install both the autogame plugin and the observer1 plugin and both would launch with blitzin.

Use:

The autogame plugin will send a command to ICC that you can alias in order to do things like greet an opponent or auto seek after a game. 'help alias' which you can type on ICC explains how to make an alias. The basic format is <alias name> <command>. use a + operator before aliasname to add an alias. example +alias gamestart say hi from Seattle. The aliasname is gamestart, a command autogame will send if you check it, the command part of the alias is 'say hi from Seattle' which tells your opponent hi from Seattle at the start of the game. say is an icc command for tell opponent.

You can alias the commands gamestart, gameend, gamewin, gameloss, and gamedraw. And you can turn on any combination of these. For example you may only want the gamestart alias for the beginning of the game and the gameloss or gamewin alias to issue a rematch. Meaning in the cases you dont select no command will be sent. To turn of the sending of a command uncheck it.

gameend will be sent at the end of any game regardless of result if you check it. The default selection is to not send gameend if you have also turned on a result alias that applies for that games end. Or you can uncheck this option and send both gameened and gamewin for example and have them do different things. For example you might alias gamewin and gameloss to an endgreeting and alias gameend to seek. Or you could select dont send gameend if a result command is sent and only turn on one result command say gamewin and gameend will be sent for the rest of the cases. this assumes you have checked both gameend and gamewin.

By default all sent commands from autogame are unchecked when you log on so you need to check the ones you want in order to start the auto gamestart and gameend behavior. Once you have created an alias for the various commands they will remain on your icc alias list tell you delete them and you can also activate those aliases by typing their name on icc manually.

Autogame lets you ping and finger your opponent on move 1. Check in the gamestart section finger opponent and/or ping opponent. They will be sent in that order. Autogame lets you set open to 0 on move 1 so when the game ends you wont be open. Check the set open 0 box to activate this. If you are not open after a game you cant be challenged or rematched. To be open again and accept challenges type set open 1 or just type open to toggle the setting back to 1. Issuing a seek will make you open again. Clicking on a seek will not make you open again. See 'help open' on icc. To allow an adjourned game to resume, if you check this option autogame will set open 1 to reverse the setting on an adjournment which allows you to receive the resume request. If you disconnect type resume on login that will make you open again.

At game end you can elect to get the opening name and eco code and examine the game you just played. The command issued to examine is examine -1 which is different than set examine 1, an option on icc to examine after a game, in that you will be the only examiner and will not share the board with your opponent.

The final set of selections in autogame is to toggle your kib and busy variables at gamestart and gameend. By turning kib off at the start of the game you will hear no game kibs in your game and any game you observe. Autogame will toggle kib back on after the game ends. You can do the same with busy except you become busy at the start of the game and revert to not busy after the game. Being busy means you accept no tells from anyone except people on your icc notify list. With these two options you will get no tells during a game or kibs but still get channel tells unlike icc's quietplay. Autogame turns them back on when the game ends to allow you to receive tells again. see the icc's help files 'help kib' and 'help busy'.

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to download autogame see www.adam16mr.org/autogame2007.html