Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:00:55 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 00:11:45, Bryan A. Bybee wrote: >>One thing you should do is pick a program. It is unreasonable to play using >>something like shredder, to build your rating up, then use a weak program which >>lets everyone 'steal' your rating points and skew the rating pool, then after >>the rating drops, back to shredder which is now way underrated and steals >>rating points from others. >> >>You really should stick with one engine to be fair to your opposition. If you >>don't, you will find the humans will stay away from you, thinking that when >>your rating is low, you are really strong, and when your rating is high but >>dropping, you are weak. > >I understand and respect both your position and theory on this, but as most of >you out there, I love to tweak things. The best situation would be FICS >allowing for more than one (C) account.. > >I suppose I could state which engine plays which time control and stick with >that? It is not my intention to be unfair for "trick" people, but I still like >to play with settings and different engines as much or more than the next >computer chess freak. > >-bryan I don't intend to criticize your experiments... I was just pointing out that your opponents are being treated unfairly. In the early years of Crafty, I had several serious problems that would cause sharp rating drops. IE NFS would go down, and cause crafty to flag every game overnight. I would simply ask an ICC admin to restore the old rating, pointing out that having a 2500 GM play a 2600 program that is currently rated at 2000 is unfair to the GM's rating... They always complied. But if I ran two programs of vastly different skill levels, that is a killer for the rating system, and a sure way to run strong players off... They want to play you when you are overrated, but never when you are underrated. :)
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