Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:46:18 09/24/98
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On September 24, 1998 at 03:02:57, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On September 24, 1998 at 02:01:22, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>I know you have ICC as your source for improvement. But not all of us >>are able or willing to join ICC as a new source of information. But if >>auto232 is going to die because of the ongoing discussion I will certainly >>re-order my thoughts about ICC because I need input to improve my >>chess program and the more input the better. > >I get the idea that you'd spend a lot of time looking at games you played in the >autoplayer. I don't spend much time looking at the ones I get from ICC, in many >cases I don't see them at all. > >I often watch games as they are being played, and I get some ideas from this, >but it is not like I am spending lots of time trying to analyze every game. > >No particular point here other than that I think some people have been thinking >about doing the ICC thing because I do it, so they should know that most of the >reason I do it is that it is fun, pure and simple. > >If you wanted to get long time control games there, the odds that you could get >them against a strong human are very low. If you wanted to play anything at >tournament time controls you'd probably either play a low rated player or some >guy who is using a computer whether or not he admits it. > >Mine has played 962 rated standard games over a period of almost four years, >almost all are 30 0 or thereabouts, and almost all are against computers or >people who later turn out to have been cheating with a computer. > >I think ICC is mainly for blitz, but as I have said, it is fun, and from this >standpoint I recommend it to everyone. > >bruce Not to mention the fact that you can play *lots* of such games vs GM players rather than against the same program. This exposes *lots* of problems that playing only computers won't show...
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