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Hi people!
I run a computer account on fics (critterbot) which uses critter for chess and wild variants and tjchess for crazyhouse. When I use critter, an UCI engine and I want to autojoin tourneys, I must use zippygameend command to send a few commands to the server in order to join tourneys. With this I have no problem.
However when I use tjchess, a winboard engine, I do not want to join any chess tourney; the rating of tjchess in normal chess on my computer might be around 2000, compared to 2700 of critter. The problem is that tjchess auto joins chess tourneys on FICS (blitz, lightning and standard), without me sending any command to auto join.
So I don't really know why tjchess auto joins tourneys on FICS.
I run critter with

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timeseal 69.36.243.188 5000 -p 5501&
xboard -ics -icshost localhost -icsport 5501 -icslogon =/home/isaac/Games/critteronfics/critterstart.bin -zp -fUCI -fcp /usr/games/critter -zippyGameEnd \"lin0\\nlin1\\nlin2\\nlin3\\nlin4\\nlin5\\nlin6\"


and tjchess with

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timeseal 69.36.243.188 5000 -p 5501&
xboard -ics -icshost localhost -icsport 5501 -icslogon =/home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS/tjchessstart.bin -zp -cp -fd /home/isaac/Games/TJchessFICS -fcp ./tjchess -zippyGameEnd \"seek 1 0 zh\\nseek 2 0 zh\\nseek 3 0 zh\"

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I repeat once more: critter does not auto joins tourneys while tjchess does. I do not want to auto join chess tourneys for tjchess but I don't know how to fix this.

I've read on the Internet about icsdroneeng (http://sourceforge.net/projects/icsdrone/files/) and it seems that apparently in the latest version of this program, autoJoin is auto set on "on". I have tried many different commands to use "-autoJoin off" without any success (all crashed).
Do you have any idea why tjchess auto joins tourney? How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance!

I am afraid that I don't really know why tjchess auto joins tourneys. Some TD's force join engines, but it is weird that they would do to that to tjchess only. Perhaps you have done a "gettourney" in the past? But I thought gettourney commands are cleared across games (I am not 100% sure though). The best thing to do is to look at xboard's log file.

_However_ let me point out that autoJoin is an icsdrone option which has _nothing_ whatsoever to do with xboard.

there was a command on fics to autojoin tournys once set it did'nt need further setting,like auto flag.
forgot what it was though.
contact an admin on fics.perhaps one of them has set your account to autojoin tourny.
are you using the same account for both?that could be the issue.

regards
mike

Yes td gettourney blitz/lightning/standard is the command one has to write after each game (it gets reset after each game) in order to auto join, that I do use with critter.
I've just asked a TM to do a test, to start a tourney and tjchess did not auto join. This leads me to think that either:
1)A TM made me auto join tourneys when I was using tjchess without asking me.
2)After I play at least a game, maybe tjchess/zippy auto sends commands I'm unaware of and it makes me auto join tourneys (unlikely I know).
Thanks guys, sorry to bother.