Author: Mark Young
Date: 11:34:22 03/16/99
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On March 16, 1999 at 08:36:43, Lonnie Cook wrote: >On March 15, 1999 at 18:02:54, Mark Young wrote: > >>On March 15, 1999 at 17:57:31, Peter McKenzie wrote: >> >>>On March 15, 1999 at 17:29:00, Mark Young wrote: >>> >>>>Hiarcs 7 has been banned from playing the other programs on the chess server >>>>Chess4You. I joined this chess server under the name DoomsDayMachine. After only >>>>11 games and a 11-0 score and a 2900+ rating. I was told by an admin that Hiarcs >>>>7 is too *strong* to play on the Chess4You server, and that Hiarcs 7's games >>>>would be resigned to bring Hiarcs 7's ratings back into line to what it should >>>>be, and Hiarcs 7 could no longer play the other programs.:) >>> >>> >>>Come on over to ICC where you'll get fierce competition and no silly rules. >> >>I am on the other chess server, and I have never had this happend before. BTW >>There is no rule on chess4You like this.:) until now. Here is the logic of the >>new rule. You can have a computer account, but if the program you are using wins >>to much, you can no longer use that program....... > >Thats the new rule?? U gotta b kidding!!! I wish I was, but Hiarcs7 was banned from playing only because it was too strong. If I played a program that would have lost some games, or Hiarcs7 just had same bad luck and lost a few of the first 11 games....I would not have had a problem. I see no other way to look at it, The admin did not like my rating of 2900+, because he said so, when the other programs were in the low 2500's. What make no sense was, I had only played 11 games and my rating was provisional. My round score was still in the 110 to 120 range....I just wish people would understand how ratings worked.........because they jumped the gun big time by taking that action at all, not to say after only 11 games. It would be very hard to keep a rating over 400 points higher then the rest of the ratings pool, as I am sure you know. My rating would have dropped because after my rating is none provisional and if I am still over 400 points higher over the other members in the ratings pool, no matter who I played, I could gain no rating points and I could only lose rating points to the member of the ratings pool. And as good as Hiarcs7 is it will not win 100% of its games against other 2500+ programs. It makes no sense what they did........ Mark Young >>> >>>Peter >>> >>><snip>
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