Shortcuts and Tips

This section contains several useful tips and techniques.

Slash commands

The Lobby, Board, and various chat windows allow you to type commands to GridGammon. For example, if you see that Fergy is online and you want to chat with him, you can type "/chat Fergy" in the Lobby chat line. You can invite players, open player info, and more. To see what commands are available, just type "/help" in the Lobby, Board, or other chat windows.

You don't need to type slash commands in full, they can be shortened as long as it is unique, for example, "/chat Fergy" can be shortened to "/ch Fergy", "/invite Fergy" shortened to "/inv Fergy".

Chatting shortcuts

In the Lobby or Board chat, starting a message with a single period is a shortcut for "/whisper ...message..."

Starting with a comma is the same as "/emote ...message..."

Starting with an asterisk is the same as /tell player ...message..."

Mac or Windows?

Type "/version Fergy", which displays what version of GridGammon Fergy is running (and can deduce whether Fergy is on a Mac or Windows PC).

When you are playing, you can shorten this to just "/version" (or "/ver") to see your opponent's version info.

Tooltips

Most elements of the GridGammon User Interface provide tooltips. Some tooltips provide "live information", for example, the tooltips for the scoring information on the left side of the board window contain statistics about the current match and game. The tooltip for the Network toolbar buttons provide current connection information.

Clicking player pictures

If you double click either player's picture in the Board window, you will open a player info window for that player.

If you option click either player's picture, you will open an invite window for that player (you cannot invite yourself.) This is an easy way to re-invite someone after finishing a match; the invitation will open with the last match's settings.