Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 06:12:37 01/16/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 22:54:37, Mike Byrne wrote:
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>URI's PROGRAM "MOVEI" BEAT A VASTLY WEAKER PLAYER and THEREFORE MOVEI's
>PROVISONAL RATING WENT DOWN AND URI IS UPSET ABOUT IT.
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>Uri,
>
>There is no other way to initiate a provisinal rating without subjecting the
>entire rating system to substantial abuse. Player will quickly figure out an
>abuse scheme to manipulate their rating to be higher and in some cases
>subtantially higher.
>
>For some unknown reasons, wherever rating systems are introduced , players
>(especially males) quickly equate their rating with perhaps the size of their
>bank account and/or penis size and many frantically scheme how to get their
>rating higher by ANY MEANS - cheating is a common method employed. I believe
>this is done to impress the opposite sex , but I am not convinced as the
>bragging is often made to the same sex.
The behavior of humans sometimes is remarkably similar to many animals,
including deer.
During a certain season of the year, male deer become very aggressive and
"fight" with other males for the females. This behavior appears to be genetic.
A large percentage of the genes of humans are the same as those of other
mammals, including deer. The same genes, which make deer behave that way, also
seem to be in humans, although possibly with some modifications.
The presence of large amounts of testosterone in young human males is probably
the root cause of much criminal behavior. This hormone, combined with the
genetic factors mentioned above, causes many strange behaviors, such as
competing using 32 pieces of wood on an 8x8 squares board. If one is objective,
one must recognize that pushing pieces of wood on a board is really stupid.
Modern man has become really screwed up. Now they compete and play ego games
with chess programs! This can only be explained as a really weird perversion of
the original intent of the genes in question. These genes originally served to
promote the well being of the species.
Weird, weird, weird!
Bob D.
>
>My suggestion is to play Movei for FUN - who gives a hoot what Movei's rating is
>on ICC - nobody here does (except for you) and remember - this is not about the
>rating - it's about chess.
>
>Good Luck with your program
>
>Michael
>
>
>On January 14, 2003 at 10:43:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>
>>{Game 494 (MoveiXX vs. ACCIDENTE) ACCIDENTE resigns} 1-0
>>Blitz rating adjustment: 2635 --> 2602
>>
>>Movei won a game and lost rating.
>>
>>Uri
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