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Subject: Re: Hiarcs7 banned from playing other programs on Chess4You chess serve

Author: Mark Young

Date: 18:44:12 03/16/99

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On March 16, 1999 at 20:21:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 16, 1999 at 14:34:22, Mark Young wrote:
>[snip]
>>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........
>If this report is true, then it sounds like good "ad copy" for Mark U.
>
>Do they have any place you can find this formal announcement or any official
>statement to show that it is truly the case?
>
>Are you sure that you did not cheese them off and get the boot for some other
>reason?

I should point out to you also because I may have not been clear, I am not
Booted from Chess4You...Hiarcs 7 got Booted, in there words, because hiarcs7 is
to strong for this server. You can log onto my account right now and see I am
not banned, just playing this strong program Hiarcs7 is Banned. Account name
DoomsDayMachine, Password eywa

I am still on there, just banned from playing Hiarcs7, if I play Hiarcs7 or I
guess play other programs that are too strong, I will have more games resigned
when I try to play.

As you guess I will not test programs under that kind of condititons. And will
not play on this site again. I can not trust them.



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