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Subject: Re: ICC - Does anyone play there anymore or has FRITZ taken over?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 10:27:23 07/19/04

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On July 19, 2004 at 13:20:45, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On July 19, 2004 at 11:56:18, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On July 19, 2004 at 11:34:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>
>>On the FICS server, using Hiarcs 9 (selectivity changed to 4) on a PIV 2.0 Ghz
>>system I have achieved #1 in standard and #1 in lightning games. I built my own
>>book (1000% better than the default book, rated in the GUI at 2780 instead of
>>2550) and I have done it all by playing anyone at any time. In fact the other
>>night the #2 player was on (cchess(C)), wanted to play a series of 30 3 games
>>and he played around 8 or so. I came out of it +2 =5 -1:
>>
>>61: + 2676 W 2491 Hera          [ sr 15   3] A77 Mat Thu Jul 15, 07:25 PDT 2004
>>62: + 2684 B 2487 Hera          [ sr 15   3] B45 Mat Thu Jul 15, 07:51 PDT 2004
>>63: + 2699 W 2669 cchess        [ sr 30   3] E05 Res Fri Jul 16, 04:24 PDT 2004
>>64: = 2698 B 2670 cchess        [ sr 30   3] B33 Agr Fri Jul 16, 05:21 PDT 2004
>>65: = 2697 W 2671 cchess        [ sr 30   3] D20 Rep Fri Jul 16, 06:11 PDT 2004
>>66: = 2696 B 2672 cchess        [ sr 30   3] B33 Rep Fri Jul 16, 06:45 PDT 2004
>>67: + 2708 W 2665 cchess        [ sr 30   3] C43 Res Fri Jul 16, 07:03 PDT 2004
>>68: - 2694 B 2674 cchess        [ sr 30   3] B33 Mat Fri Jul 16, 08:06 PDT 2004
>>69: = 2693 W 2674 cchess        [ sr 30   3] B22 Rep Fri Jul 16, 08:39 PDT 2004
>>70: = 2692 B 2674 cchess        [ sr 30   3] B97  NM Fri Jul 16, 09:37 PDT 2004
>>
>>It was #1 vs #2. cchess is a Shredder 8 bot on a AthlonXP @ 2200 MHz.
>>
>>Hera is Rebel 12.00.01 on a P4 3.0Ghz system.
>>
>>You don't have to cheat to attain a high rating, you just have to work harder
>>than installing a cdrom. :)
>>
>>Peter
>
>Try to attain a high rating at the chessbase server with your book.
>I guess you wouldn`t have a chance there with Hiarcs 9 on a PIV2.0Ghz.
>
>Michael

Actually I do just fine at ICC, and it has the best hardware users of all the
servers.

If you would like I will register an account this afternoon and play a few games
and post them here.

Peter



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