Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:12:46 07/29/00
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On July 29, 2000 at 22:11:11, Derrick Wilson wrote:
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> I'm Running a Chess Tiger Clone at ICC, after reviewing some of the games I
>noticed this particular 2300 player knocked me off twice in a row. I figured he
>most be onen of those dynamite, anti computer chess humans ,that had developed
>expience on how to beat computers. To my amazement I discovered his strategy was
>simply to use the computers clock against it. This guy was winning on Time!!!;
>while in Lost positions. He would simply build a stonewall fortress, then begin
>to simply move the same piece back and forth, back and forth, until the program
>lost on time!!!! I can't help but feel this guy is cheating, although i don't
>know any specific rule that he is breaking, I just have the feeling that there
>should be some rule against this type of play. The human is simply taking
>advantage of the poor program!! What do you think ??, here are the games. I have
>removed the name to protect the indivisual privacy.
>The computer lost on time in both games!!
I must add that this strategy would not work in a tournament, as the referee
would accept a claim that the opponent is not making any effort in order to win
the game. Chess played on the chess servers is generally a subset of chess
because all the rules or regular chess are not respected. The guy is taking
advantage of a flaw in the subset of chess rules on the chess servers. But Chess
Tiger will accept this new subset of rules and react accordingly.
Christophe
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