Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:34:00 07/19/04
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On July 19, 2004 at 10:58:27, Peter Skinner wrote: >On July 19, 2004 at 10:24:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 18, 2004 at 23:19:02, Alex wrote: >> >>> I must say I yelled, I pleaded, and I wrote in suggestions to >>>improve.........but to no avail....... I'm sure it is still alive.... but for >>>how much longer? Soon -no doubt - it will be relegated to the status of say >>>perhaps the MSN chess room! HAH! Alas poor ICC! I knew it well! Deep >>>Sigh............ >> >> >>What on earth are you talking about??? > >He could be talking about the !computer accounts on ICC, and I am assuming that >FRITZ is a.k.a Playchess. > >Of the 38 computer accounts logged onto ICC when I just checked, only 5 played >other computers, and 2 of them were playing each other. (Crafty, Kronos, Stormx, >Deveraux, Blargh). > >Almost all of the !computer accounts were running either Crafty or Shredder 8. > >It seems clones care how high their rating is. I just don't get it. > >Peter There is no solution to the problem of people who care how high their rating is but I do not see why it means that computers do not play computers. The opposite. It may be better to beat some stupid program when you have some killer line against it and not to play human who is less predictable. If people care how high their rating they may have 2 computer accounts and care that account A always beat account B. Unfortunately people cheat and not only weak players. I know that in the chessbase server tamir navati(second place in Israel under 14 in tournament time control games with rating of 2043) cared about inflating his rating in the chessbase server by registering in 2 names when one name always beated the second name(he was also stupid enough to have one name as tamirn and another name as tamirn2). It was discovered in april in this year and you can see evidence for it in the following link http://www.chess.org.il/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4483 He was banned from the chessbase server but cheaters will always continue to cheat. I do not care about rating in the internet because I assume that in big part of the cases rating is achieved by cheating. Uri
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