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Subject: Re: deep fritz's on ICC

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 02:50:39 01/16/01

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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...

<grin>



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