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                                 Welcome to ChessMates-on-line

                    The goal of ChessMates-on-Line is to provide a friendly scholastic environment where

our students can have fun playing chess and socialize with high standards of privacy and sportsmanship.

You can enjoy:

·         Formal and informal play in your exclusive ChessMates-on-line scholastic chess community

·         Saving your games for later analysis

·         Taking private lessons from ChessMates-on-line coaches or be tutored by ChessMates-on-line players

·         Simultaneous exhibitions, tournaments, blitz, bughouse and more…

           

How do you join the ChessMates-on-line chess club?

 

Please submit the Registrarion Application, Code of Conduct Agreement signed, and $25 Annual Membership fee to your Coach  OR

mail it to: ChessMates, 1339 73rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11228

Your account will be valid through September 31, 2011

You will have 30 days from the date your account is activated to cancel your membership and have your fee returned if you are not satisfied. 

 

Installation

Download and run the free Windows Internet chess software WinBoard . This can be found at:

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/WinBoard/WinBoard-4.4.1.exe

 

Running WinBoard

 

1) Click on the Windows Start button and find the WinBoard folder

2) Click on "Winboard Startup Dialog”
3)
Select 'Use an Internet Chess Server’

4) In the “Specify Chess Server” field replace "chessclub.com /icsport=5000 /icshelper=timestamp" with "chessmatesonline.com /icsport=5000"

 

The list of basic commands:

To request a command to be executed, you must first have the command window on top. This is the white window that you logged into. Click on it to make sure it s on top and in focus.

 

who  - to see who is currently logged on
match MrG   -  to play MrG (5min 12sec increment is the default time control)
match MrG 10 0  - to play MrG a 10min game observe MrG  - to follow MrG's game
tell MrG Hello  - to say hello to MrG
shout  Hello   - to say hello to everyone

 

For help type help intro0 to see the introductory help, then type next for each additional page

If you want to announce that you want to play anyone, type seek

If you want to see who wants to play right now, type sought

To accept a game challenge, type accept

To speak to your current or last opponent, type say followed by what you want to say to them

To speak to all that are logged in, type shout followed by what you want to say

To see your previous games type history