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NAME

       yics - Yahoo! Chess client for use with FICS interfaces

SYNOPSIS

       yics [ -l logfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       YICS  connects to the free Yahoo! Chess lobbies and emulates a FICS server.  It can be used with most FICS interfaces (xboard(6), for exam-
       ple) to play on Yahoo! Chess.

OPTIONS

       YICS currently accepts only one option:

       -l logfile
	      Saves a connection log (excluding login information) to logfile, which can be attached to a bug report if requested by the author.

COMMAND REFERENCE

       A reference of commands, and other useful documentation, may be found on the YICS wiki: <http://wiki.yics.org>.

YICS AS A HELPER PROGRAM

       YICS was designed to be used as a helper program with FICS interfaces.  With xboard the use is fairly straightforward:

	xboard -ics -icshost Yahoo -icshelper yics

       Note that the parameter to -icshost has no effect, aside from setting the xboard title.	eboard is a little tricky, but can be done:

	ln -s $(which yics) timeseal.$(uname -s) ; eboard

       Choose "Peer > Connect to FICS" in eboard to connect.

SEE ALSO

       xboard(6).

AUTHOR

       YICS was written by Chris Howie <chris@yics.org>.

       This manual page was written by Chris Howie <cdhowie@nerdshack.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    03 Feb 2006 							   yics(6)