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 example) 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)