YaY tutorial for connecting to Yahoo Chess using Winboard and Polyglot

                          New Version YaY 3.2.2 Ultimate Edition 

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Download YaY_Ultimate_3 from YaY FORUM  and decompress to anywhere you wish.

Double click on the YaY Ultimate 3 Installer to begin installing YaY. You will then see the window shown below:

  the program install on C:\YaY_Ultimate_3, is very important that you don’t change the default directory because the included shortcuts for the batch examples and WinBoard shortcuts are pointing to this default directory.

Select to launch YaY Ultimate 3 and Winboard Shortcuts installer on finishing installing.

 YaY should now have been installed along with WinBoard and all of the shortcuts needed.

 You should now have a YaY Ultimate 3 folder like the one pictured below (Figure 2), located here:  C:\YaY_Ultimate_3  

Figure 2

You will then see the ‘WinBoard shortcut selection’ window open (see Figure 3 below)

Select WinBoard_X with Polyglot and Rybka2.ink as shown, then click on LOAD SELECTED SHORTCUT

Figure 3

Next you will see the ‘User declaration/selection/options’ window (Figure 4 below)

Figure 4

Select Add_New_User ( #1 ) and enter the User ID ( #2 )and Password ( #3 ), you can then select save user/password to file for future use if you wish. ( #4 )

NOTE: If you chose to save user/password to file, next time you log in you will simply select the user name from the drop down instead of selecting Add_New_User , additionally, if choose to save, the user ID and password will be encrypted for extra security.

Then click on ‘Login’ (#5) as shown in Figure 4.

The next window to open is the ‘Room Selection’ (#1) on Figure 5.

Click on Select Region (as shown) and select a region from the drop down as shown in Figure 5 below.

Figure 5

After this, YaY Ultimate will display the ’Room Selection’ window, as shown below in Figure 6:

Figure 6

Click on any of the available TABS and select from the list the Yahoo Chess room you wish to enter and then click on ‘Join room’ as shown above in Figure 6.

Note: If the room you want to enter is not displayed in any of the regions, remember that you can always declare the room in a batch file or in the command prompt when launching YaY Ultimate, example: YaY_Ultimate_3.exe --room “chess_aa”

Next you will see the ’Test Word’ window (Figure 7)

( figure 7 )

NOTE: If you have trouble reading the test word, click on the ‘I can’t read this crap, give me a new test word’ tab to be given a new test word to enter instead. 

Once the test word has been accepted, and if you are using Windows XP, and depending on your firewall settings, you might or might not get a Windows Security Alert window. If you get this window, click on Unblock to continue.

                                                  


 And then you'll see Winboard’s ICS Interaction window:

That’s it. You are now ready to play automatically.

For a list of commands read the file Commands and Notes.txt included with YaY Ultimate distribution.

To access the ICS Menu (which now contains most of the commands thanks to the new winboard.ini), right click on the ICS Interaction window. The next frame will pop up (Figure 14):

                                                                                       Figure 14


There is no tutorial on how to use this ICS Menu, it is self explanatory. 

Note: To perform an action that requires addition information, for example to boot a player, you need to move the mouse’s cursor over of the player’s name then bring the ICS Menu up (by right clicking) then click on Boot(player) and YaY will boot that player without you having to type a single letter. This was just an example; there are hundreds of things you can do with the ICS Menu. Very easy folks, just play with it and you’ll understand how it works. Another note: Sometime the example above will not work if the player you want to boot has special character in his/hers ID, like underscore or perhaps some others.

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By releasing YaY Ultimate 3 the way we did, and by adding these tutorials, now newbies will be able to be auto-playing at Yahoo chess almost instantly. We do no condemn the use of YaY and chess engines for cheating purposes. It is our whole intention to facilitate the use of these programs to newbies and perhaps some existing users, to show to them the exiting world of auto-chess playing. But things do not end here, we encourage all users to do their homework and their research, learn how to improve the performance of their computers, how to make opening books, to acquire more powerful engines, to tinker with settings and perhaps learn a programming language and write a chess engine or a better program than YaY, Rybka.

Visit YaY Ultimate forum at http://yay.10.forumer.com/  .

That's all my friends. You should be ready to go and play. You need to learn how to chat, create tables, start games,, leave tables, set timers, etc , etc, etc. 

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