Author: Todd Martin
Date: 21:35:01 01/15/01
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On January 15, 2001 at 22:57:42, Chessfun wrote: >On January 15, 2001 at 20:47:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > > > >From what I know it was started by the account Chessbeta followed by Evilsilicon >and Val-vipp now Valheru seems also to have taken to doing it. > >Tiger seems to repeat the same games over and over. Even as white Tiger is >getting slayed by either 1 d4 or 1 e4....1.b6. > >One way for Tiger owners to avoid it seems to be using Gambit as it won't play >the same moves as Tiger though I'm sure also that moves could be found to also >get Gambit. > >Sarah. Actually, I prepared the h4,h5 line and played it under the Silicon account 12/20. I thought of it as a 'for fun' opening, but it seems someone discovered it in my history and it spread from there. I didn't spend the time to adapt the line for Gambit, but I suspect it wouldn't be very difficult. TM
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