***** CHANNELS ***** Channels on ICC are used for group discussion. You can enter and leave a channel, and talk to all people in a channel. You can be in 35 channels at one time. Channels can also be used for team games. There are 400 channels. Use "+channel 99" to join channel 99 and hear what's said on it. Use "tell 99 blah blah" to say "blah blah" on channel 99. Use ", howdy" to say "howdy" to the last channel you talked in. Use "-channel 99" to leave channel 99. Use "=channel" to see what channels you are in. Use "inchannel 99" to see who is in channel 99. Use "inchannel" to get a list of who is in all channels. In all of the above, "channel" can be abbreviated to "ch". Requests for new channels in the list are being made only if chess- related and a large number of people request them. We do not assign personal channels or new channels for tournaments. Warning: ICC will not tolerate obscenities, personal attacks, or advertising of other servers in channels (or anywhere else on ICC). Special channels include: 0 - Admins only. 1 - Newbie Help: All guests and new accounts are automatically in channel 1. Newbies ask questions. NO chatter in this channel! Serious questions and answers only, please. 2 - Experienced Help: for more experienced members to ask questions and to discuss policies, etc, with admins. Interface/ timestamp questions here. 3 - Simul. 4 - SimulBot2. 5 - Wild 5. 7 - Wild 7. 10 - Team-Setup: For setting up team games 11 - Team Game Channel: For team A. 12 - Team Game Channel: For team B. 14 - Macintosh users channel (ICC for Mac, Fixation interface help) 22 - Fischer-Random Chess - wild 22. 23 - Crazyhouse Channel - wild 23. 24 - BUGHOUSE Channel-partnering and general 'bug' topics. 25 - 3 checks you win - wild 25. 26 - Giveaway Chess - wild 26. 27 - Atomic Channel - wild 27. 28 - Shatranj Channel - wild 28. 32 - STtourney channel - "help STtourney". 34 - Sports 43 - Chess theory -- openings, endgames, etc. 46 - Tomato TD (Blitz Tournaments) "help Tomato" 47 - Tomato tournament managers group 49 - Flash TD (Bullet Tournaments) "help Tomato" 64 - Computer chess playing programs, programming, chess playing and related 65 - Canadian 66 - Australia 67 - British 68 - South Africa 69 - Singapore and Malaysia 70 - Greek 71 - Spanish 72 - French 73 - German 74 - Dutch 75 - Russian 76 - Italian 77 - Japanese 78 - Scandinavian(Denmark,Norway,Sweden) 79 - Icelandic 80 - Finnish 81 - Portuguese 82 - Catalan 83 - Hebrew 84 - Turkish 86 - ASCII art 88 - China 90 - Slow time controls: People who like slow time controls. STC Bunch, Chess9030, etc. 97 - Politics. Read "help politics" before entering this channel. Note that "help atmosphere" applies here, as everywhere else on ICC. 100 - Admins and helpers only. See "help helper". 101 - Music 103 - Religious Discussions/Debates 107 - Math and Science 110 - Philosophy 114 - Health and Medicine 116 - Wild 16 (Kriegspiel) "help Kriegspiel". 117 - Wild 17 (Losers Chess) "help LOL". 123 - Acrobot 129 - USCL (United States Chess League) "finger USCL". 147 - Tomato senior managers group 165 - ICC Radio Broadcast and Chess Events 183 - Correspondence Chess. Meet opponents, ask questions 185 - Philippine 186 - Irish 220 - Query all the Tomato-type TD bots at once. 221 - The "Ask for a Tournament" Channel. Ask for Tomato-type tourneys. 222 - Slomato TD (Slow Tournaments) "help Tomato" 223 - WildOne TD (Wild Tournaments) "help Tomato" 224 - Cooly TD (Tournaments) "help Tomato" 225 - LittlePer TD (Tournaments) "help Tomato" 226 - Automato TD (Special Event Tournaments) "help Tomato" 227 - Pear TD (Special Event Tournaments) "help Tomato" 228 - Ketchup TD (Tournaments) "help Tomato" 229 - Channel for Tournament Robots to interact. Not useful for humans. 230 - Olive TD (Tournaments) "help Tomato" 232 - Yenta TD (Special Event Tournaments) "help Tomato" 250 - Lobby (new members are automatically put in this channel). 271 - LatinTrivia Channel (Spanish). "help LatinTrivia" for info. 272 - TriviaBot Channel. "help TriviaBot" for info. 274 - Spam channel. Spam here, not anywhere else, and keep it clean. 280 - BettingBot - Bet on Tomato tournaments (with chips, not money!) 291 - Scholastic Chess Coaches channel. Arrange inter-school matches. 300 - Helpers and Administrators 302 - Busters 303 - Christian 333 - AtheistAgnostic 334 - Johns Hopkins CTY 335 - SimulBot 337 - Broadcast 338 - Relay coordination 340 - LeChessClub 345 - Team4545League 348 - Tomato Trainers group 394 - Tomato admins group 396 - Complain 397 - Politics-Reserved 399 - Events See also: lists, tell, inchannel, team-games, groups