The Description of a hall «Squares»

Clicking a tab of the hall «Squares» in the game client you see a window of the Chat and the List of players to the right and a window of a hall with game tables to the left.

It is possible to play the following games in the «Squares» Hall: Chess, Draughts (Russian, Checkers, International, Anti-draughts).

The window of the hall is displayed as a table (by default) where every line is linked with a certain game table.

Empty lines are free unoccupied tables. Tables where the game is running on cash are marked bold.

The following information about the game is presented in the table:

• Table number;
• The name of the game;
• The stake of the running or offered game;
• The players sitting at the table.

There is a possibility of sorting on each column both ascending and descending.

If you want to observe how others play you can come up to the table. For this purpose choose a table where the game is running double clicking a table with a mouse. Choose «To observe the game» in the emerging menu.

Filters

Pay attention to the «filters» bar over the game tables.

To open the filters bar it is necessary to click on a dark green strip under the tab pages with names of halls. After making settings of filters it is necessary to click on this strip once again to hide the filters bar. The chosen filters are shown over a hall.

It is possible to do settings of the hall display using filters, i.e. to choose:

• Currency – to show tables where the game is only on Euro, only on play money or both.
• Games - to show or hide tables where this or that game is being run.
• Tables - to show the occupied tables or tables of the players expecting the partner.

After doing settings of all necessary filters it is possible to start to play.

To start the game it is necessary either to open a new table or to join already opened table where the player is already expecting contenders.

To open a new table

It is possible to open a table with one of the following ways:

• Pressing the button «open the table» below or above a window of the hall.
• Clicking twice on an empty line with the left button of the mouse or one time with the right.

Further choose the game in an emerging window.

After choosing the game a table window where it is necessary to set game conventions opens: the type and size of the stake, game duration. At the same time a tab of the given table will appear in the list of tabs.

You do the game settings according to your taste and press the button «Set the convention».

After the setting of the game convention it is necessary to wait for a player who joins the table with whom it will be necessary to agree the game conventions. Disagreed options of conventions are marked in red. When all conventions are agreed it is necessary to put a tick «Start the game after the agreement of the game conventions» in order to start the game.

To join a table

Choose a table in a hall with a free seat double clicking on a table with the left button of the mouse. You sit at the table and see the conventions chosen by other player (if he has already chosen them) and also your convention which you can edit. If you agree with the convention offered by other player press the button «Agree with the offered». Disagreed options of conventions are marked in red.

The agreement concerning the game conventions always precedes the game beginning. Game will not start until all conventions are agreed.

If there is a tick «Ready to start the game» in the conventions of the player who has opened a table then the player who joined the table has only 15 seconds to agree with the set convention or to leave a table. The just joined player will be automatically removed from the table in 15 seconds.

It is possible to play at different tables simultaneously switching from one table to another clicking with a mouse the necessary tab of the main menu of the client (all tables are collected in tabs in the main menu of the client by default).

Clicking with the right button of the mouse in any place of a game field you can:

• To see the game rules;
• To see game convention;
• To go to the game settings;
• To switch off a table chat for observers;
• To look through the list of observers.