From: 	Daniel Sleator
Sent: 	Monday, April 01, 1996 10:13 PM
To: 	L. Mitchell Wein
Subject: 	ICC Services and Membership Agreement

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***** VALUE *****

In addition to the basic ICC features of playing games, watching games, and
communicating with players and friends worldwide, the ICC provides a wide
range of features and exciting chess events for its members!  Altogether,
ICC is a tremendous value for one low yearly membership fee.

FEATURES:
- anti-lag timestamping of moves (never get "lag-flagged" again!)
- histories of past 20 games for every player, available for emailing,
     examining, discussing with friends
- personal libraries of up to 40 games you can save and show to friends on-line
- on-line database of over 60,000 ICC master games available nowhere else.
    You can search by player, opening, and other parameters.  You can examine
    online or email to yourself.
- ECO opening identification system
- match formulas to specify the kind of games and opponents you want to play
- emailing games in PGN format
- auto-notification of friend's arrival, departure, and game playing
- time-odds games, and material-odds games.  Many types of chess variants
     ("wild chess")
- bughouse!
- Kriegspiel!
- many discussion groups (channels) for a wide variety of chess and non-chess
     topics

EVENTS and MEMBERS:
- many strong players (Grandmasters and International Masters you can watch)
- world-wide large attendance, 24 hours a day
- Tomato tournaments
- Weekly Play the Master nights
- Weekly International Master Simuls!
- Weekly Official WBCA Tournaments
- LIVE Broadcasts, including World Championships (Kasparov-Anand), US
   Championships, Harvard Cup, Holland-Israel GM Match, etc.
- Grandmaster-Grandmaster matches, Grandmaster-Computer matches.
- Lectures and Lessons, several every month.
- Read "help event-all" for a complete list of events that have been held!
      You will see we have many every week!
- A professional staff to maintain a well-run Club and provide top-quality
features, events, and services.
  
Type "help reg" for a list of advantages to being a registered member of ICC,
compared with being unregistered.

There will be many more improvements suggested by ICC members that will
continue to maintain the ICC as the most exciting place for chess players
in the world.
                            -- The Internet Chess Club

See also: event, event-all, fees, flyer, refund, registration

***** AGREEMENT *****

               INTERNET CHESS CLUB USER AGREEMENT

By becoming a registered member of the Internet Chess Club and using its
services, I am agreeing to the following:

1) If at anytime I am not satisfied with the service ICC is providing, I
may request a refund as explained in "help refund".

2) I will not give my account password to anyone.  I am the only person
who can play games using my account, except I can allow a friend to play an
unrated game for purposes of demonstrating ICC.

3) I will not use a computer to make moves or help me decide on moves.  If
I wish to have my computer play on ICC, I need to purchase another account
for that purpose, and inform an admin that it is a computer account.

4) I will not abuse the system, as defined in "help abuse".

5) I will behave decently towards other ICC members, as described in "help
atmosphere".  Specifically, I understand that obscenities and verbal abuse
will not be tolerated.

6) I will not copy, or in any way transmit to other servers or forums, the
commentary or content of special events on IC without written permission
from the ICC.  These events are for the private use of ICC members only.

I understand that a violation of any of points 2-6 may result in the loss
of my membership without a refund.

7) The ICC will do its best to maintain a server that is up and running the
maximum amount of time possible.  I understand that from time to time,
routine maintainence and installation of new features may be necessary, and
will result in short periods of down-time.

8) If the amount of cumulative down-time in any calendar year exceeds 4 days
(96 hours), the ICC will provide all current members with a free extension
of their membership equal to double the amount of down-time.  This will only
include down-time resulting from the ICC program, the ICC computers, and the
ICC internet site.  The ICC cannot be responsible for general failure of the
internet, routers, or member's computer systems.

9) The ICC will not be held responsible for any damage to computer hardware
or software resulting from the use of ICC.  The ICC will not be responsible
for any consequences of spending too much time on ICC.