CHESSBD walkthru - ICS arena

• The autoqueen, autoflag, and variant checkboxes.
  • Normally autoqueen is checked. If you want to promote to something other than a queen, uncheck this checkbox before making your pawn move: a dialog will appear when you make the move.
  • Normally autoflag is checked. Uncheck it if you don't want your opponent to be flagged automatically, or if you've turned on the server's autoflag variable.
  • Normally variant is not checked. Check it if you are playing a game with non-standard rules, such as kriegspiel or suicide. Otherwise you will not be able to make "illegal" moves.
• The who refresh button. This button sends a "who" command to the server, and captures the resulting list in the who listbox. (See below.)
• The who listbox. This listbox contains the most recent who listing. When you click on a line in the who listbox, a bank of buttons pops up.
  
  The buttons let you choose what operation you want to perform on that user, for example doing a finger on the user, checking out her game history, issuing a challenge, etc. Many CHESSBD features work this way.
  You should refresh the who listbox occasionally by pressing .
• The challenge listbox. Challenges and seeks from other players go here. When you click on one of the lines here, a bank of buttons pops up, similar to the who listbox. You can accept a challenge, or finger the challenger, etc.
• A bank of user-programmable arena buttons. You can program these buttons by selecting Opt|arena buttons...