Detailed description of Chess Assistant 8.1
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20.2.4. Seek List
When you click on Seek list tab, the console changes into a list of players currently
connected to ICC server, with the information on their respective challenges displayed in
columns.
From the left to the right they include the player’s index (player’s unique
number), his/her rating, their handle (pseudonym), type of a game they want to play (color
coded for easy identification), time control, increment, rated or not, color of the
pieces a player has chosen, desired range of an opponent’s rating, and flags. You can
accept a challenge by double-clicking on it.
The tops of the columns in Seek list are control elements in themselves, permitting you
to reorganize the list, by clicking on them. Next click on the same header reorganizes the
list in reverse order. For example, clicking on sorts the list according to the slowest or
the fastest time control being sought, and clicking on it for the second time reverses the
order. You can also set a filter to show seeks only according to the conditions you choose
To the left of the Seek list itself, you can see a specialized toolbar with the icons
designed to perform actions with any challenge you select from the list. These are
accepting the challenge (of course), issuing a seek of your own, fingering the challenger,
pinging the challenger (to see how good or bad the challenger’s connection is), and
finally assessing them to see how much your rating changes by playing them.
20.2.5. Seek Diagram
In CA all the pending seeks may also be viewed in Seek diagram. This is an alternate
display and way of seeing different challenges players have sent. When you click on Seek
diagram tab, the display of the game view changes into Seek diagram window as seen below.
Each of the dots on the diagram represents a player looking for an opponent. Moving
your mouse over a dot will display the details about that seek in a floating tip whereas
clicking on a dot will accept that particular challenge.
Seek Diagram
Faster games are listed to the left, slower ones to the right. The vertical dotted
lines divide between the different time controls: Bullet, Blitz, and Standard. The highest
rated players are listed on the top and the lower rated ones near the bottom. Gray dots
are those seeks that don't match your settings. Solid dots are rated game requests, while
hollow dots are unrated requests.
20.2.6. Players List
In Players list you will see a list of all the connected players in order of rating.
The list is color coded to identify easily whether a player is open for a game (blue),
playing a game (yellow), or not open to challenges (red). Players who are examining a game
or who have been idle for more than 5 minutes will also appear in red. The list, which can
obviously be quite large, can also be reduced by setting a filter.
You will find a special toolbar at the side with the buttons permitting you to finger a
player, issue a match to the player (you can also do this by double-clicking on their
name), follow a player, observe a player’s game, ping them, see their playing variables,
assess your rating change if you played them, and finally refresh the list.
20.2.7. Games List
This list shows the games currently being played on ICC.
It is color coded by type of a game (bullet, blitz, and standard) and displays all the
details on the game divided into columns. The information shown is: ICC game number,
white’s rating, white’s handle, black’s rating, black’s handle, type of a game
(plus if it rated or not), time, increment, the time left and material count per player,
and in the end the side to move and move number. The list can be reduced by setting a
filter, and the columns can be reordered by clicking on their name at the top of them.
There is a toolbar on the side allowing you to observe a game, finger white, finger
black, observe the highest rated game, and see who the observers of a game are.
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