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+simuls
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+ "Simuls" = simultaneous chess matches; playing more than one opponent at a
+time. It is possible to play more than one opponent simultaneously on the
+chess server. Below are sections for Starting a Simul and for Joining a
+Simul.
+
+
+STARTING A SIMUL
+
+ In order to play more than one chess match simultaneously you need to do the
+following:
+
+1. Turn on your simopen flag with "simopen". Announce your simul conditions
+ on shout and cshout enough to get the word out, but not so much as to annoy
+ users.
+
+2. Other users must then challenge you with "simmatch".
+
+3. Accept or reject the challenges as they come in. You play WHITE in all
+ games.
+
+4. When you are satisfied that you have started the number of games that you
+ can handle, turn off your simopen flag. You can see how many games you
+ are playing with "simgames".
+
+5. You can then start making moves on the board. The "simnext" command moves
+ you to the next board; "simprev" moves you to the previous board. You
+ will focus on one game at a time, going in a particular order.
+
+6. If you are bothered by how long a player is taking to make the next move,
+ you can abort that game with "simabort". You are in control of these
+ limits since the games are untimed.
+
+7. When all matches you are playing are complete, you will get your results.
+
+Various commands you can use while running a simul include: goboard, gonum,
+simabort, simadjourn, simallabort, simalladjourn, simnext, simopen and
+simprev.
+
+
+JOINING A SIMUL
+
+ In order to play against a user who is open for playing simultaneous
+matches, here is what you do:
+
+1. Using the "simmatch" command, challenge the person you will be playing.
+ If the challenge is accepted, you will play BLACK.
+
+2. You will be informed when the simul player is coming to your board. You
+ should be prepared to move either before or shortly after that player
+ arrives at your board. If you do not move within a reasonable time
+ period, your game could be aborted.
+
+3. It is impolite to offer a draw unless that player is at your board. It
+ could very easily confuse the simul player if offers come in from
+ different users at once.
+
+4. If your game ends early, you may want to turn on your ginform flag so
+ that you can see the final result of the simul games. You can also
+ observe the games; when the last game is over, you get the results.
+
+
+OBSERVING A SIMUL
+
+ You can observe all games in a simul once they have started by typing
+"observe simul_player". All of the simul_player's simul games will be added
+to your observation list. As the simul_player moves from board to board, so
+will you. When the last game has ended, you will see the final results from
+the simul games.
+
+See Also: observe set simmatch simgames [and other commands given above]
+
+[Last modified: August 15, 1995 -- Friar]
+