How To Observe A Game

There are several ways to observe someone else's game board, the easiest are:

If you want to setup a quick way to observe a high rated game, you can setup a Quick Command to observe the highest rated game on the server. When setting up your quick command, use the Action would be "observe *", to oberve the highest rated game currently being played. Place the Quick Command high enough in the list so it's easy to get to each time you want to observe a high rated game.

After observing a game, the Game Window will be displayed:

All moves will be made automatically as the two players play their game. If you wish, you can whisper and kibitz with others watching this game in the kibitz window below the board. When the game ends it will tell you who won. You can stop observing a game by simply clicking the X at the top right hand corner of the board to close it.

See Also:
Watching others play
Following a player
Communicating during a game
How to see observers of a game
observe -- command line help
unobserve -- command line help