Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:47:36 01/15/01
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On January 15, 2001 at 15:53:33, John Dahlem wrote: >ALL deep fritz owners now seem to play ONLY CT 13's with their new custom book's >that win 95% of the time. It's ridiculous. I would love to see deep fritz play >games, but instead it's just using the worst opening of all time (1.h2 2.h5 as >white) because the owner's know that it will result in a win. The frustrating >thing is that the games aren't the same,just the end result,so the admins won't >do anything about it. > >Will the patch fix this so the deep fritz's will have to EARN their rating by >out playing instead of out-booking tiger? > > > >John CT 13 is violating a _major_ principle of chess-playing. "castle if you want to, or if you have to, but _not_ just because you can." It is castling right into a horrific attack. Over and over and over and over. lots of rating inflators running around. Always have been. Now they have found a way to pick on an automatic program and grossly inflate their ratings... nothing new, unfortunately. But I must admit, the h4-h5 (white's first two moves) idea is cute and anti-computer to the max...
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