Author: Will Singleton
Date: 07:45:15 12/14/98
Under 2600 Club Dec 14 1998 Program ICC Blitz Rating_Changes Platform Author ICC Account Week Total (if not program name) Rookie 2563 Sun/250 M. van Kervinck Blik ZChess 2497 +30 +30 K6/266 Frank Zibi zchess1 BugChess 2481 +5 +5 P/450 Erik van het Hof Amateur 2476 +15 +16 Mac/300 Will Singleton PostModernist 2460 -12 -6 K6/300 Andy Williams Lambchop 2456 -82 -82 P/133 Pete McKenzie Stobor 2456 +2 +2 P/200 Tom Kerrigan Kerrigan XXXXII 2407 P/266 Martin Zetner XXXX-2 Grok 2369 +110 +110 K6/300 Peter Kappler Hossa 2359 +104 +6 P/350 Steffen Jakob OliThink 2333 -99 -99 ? Oliver Brausch Olipow EXchess 2311 Alpha/175 Dan Homan Rival 2296 -25 +1 P/266 Chris Moreton Chrismo Inmichess 2235 Cyrix/233 Inmann Werner SSEChessII 2182 -128 -128 P/200 Sam Slutzky TayxBot Tristram 2133 P/166 James Long Galahad James Long jlong WildChild Brian McKinley ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ I hope I haven't screwed up the formatting of the list. If some browsers don't display it correctly, please let me know. ] As you can see from the rating changes, U2600 members have been active in the past week. Highest rating gain award goes to Grok! Also, programs which reached new blitz highs during the week were Bugchess, PostModernist, Amateur, Grok and Hossa. I am thinking of adding a column showing number of games played during the week. Feedback would be appreciated, on that and on the general format of the list. Frank Schneider doesn't have an ICC account (my mistake), so Gromit has been dropped from the list. He says he will try to make time in the future to participate. All other members have responded in the affirmative, with the exception of Martin Zetner and Oliver Brausch, whom I haven't be able to contact. New Members Inmann Werner (InmiChess) has just got a brand new ICC account, and has played three games. Welcome aboard! Francois Scheurer (Cilian) would also like to join up, but the status of his ICC account is unclear. Program Notes Both Hossa and Amateur experienced the effects of the same problem, which was that 50-move rule draws were handled incorrectly. In the case of Amateur, the problem extended to repetition draws as well (result of rewriting the search). Rival has been reworking his evaluation, fixing bugs. An interesting technique he's employed is to note the max/min positional scores the eval puts out by writing fens & scores to a file, for later examination. This has highlighted some positional scoring problems. Humans good at anti-computer chess ex-patzer, rabid Most Complicated Formula Contest :-) I have taken to seeking with an "f", rather than specifying a rating range, in order to make the formula active for both seeks and matches. But without the rating range, I get a bunch of attempts from low-rated players, who don't meet the "rating > myrating - 300" criterion. Is there a way to show the true rating range in the seek (relative to my current rating)? Member Email Addresses (to follow in another message)
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