Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:26:25 07/11/01
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On July 11, 2001 at 00:21:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 10, 2001 at 18:19:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I will do this. I think I will try a rating cap of > 2600 for simplicity. But >>I suspect this will lead to more complaints as a few IMs will play it over and >>over trying the usual anti-computer stuff... With them at 2600 and scrappy at >>3400, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain... >> >>And since the 3200-level GMs have their hands full, will they play it if it is >>rated 3000 or so? Probably not, ie they hardly ever play Crafty now... >> >>It's a catch-22. When winboard protocol version 3 comes out, this will be >>fixable as I will be able to limit the number of consecutive games and cut some >>of that out. > >There's something in the current Winboard that lets you specify maximum number >of games, but it's pretty harsh and would zap GM's as well as the weaker >players. That's the problem. version 3 will allow us to have the match requests passed thru to the engine. We can use the opponent names and make intelligent choices rather than accepting the first choice. IE given two match requests, I could choose the human rather than a computer, every time... At present, I don't mind playing a GM 100 games in a row. I don't want to play a weak IM that many games, where he is only trying to "anti-computer" me to win one of every 30 games... > >You can do "rating >= myrating - 700" and still get one point per game, so you >don't end up playing at 32/0 odds. > >I predict that Scrappy's rating will drop but you'll get a lot more games, >including more that you could learn a lesson from. This is probably true. The catch is that do I want to play more games, or play fewer games but be open at the time a strong GM comes by? I generally like the latter, but if this leaves it idle too much, then it isn't so useful of course. > >As we speak, Scrappy has been idle for 9 hours. which is 3 p.m. to midnight EDT. > You'd think you could get a few games during those hours. > >If you drop so much you get no GM activity you can put it back. It's not like >they are going to forget about you. > >bruce
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