Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 18:17:53 03/11/01
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Thanks for the information, Thomas! On March 11, 2001 at 20:13:50, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Eelco, > >>Does anybody maybe know if the Chess Tiger accounts on ICC are still >>encountering 1.h2-h4 openings as Black? >today or yesterday I have seen at least one Chess Tiger account that has in its >finger notes that it refuses openings like that... And there was mentioned that >it refuses to play also many other openings like this... (Reason, also pointed >out in finger notes: To maximize score) > >Well, they can do what they want, but I think those operators are really no >sportsman... That seems strange, that somebody should want to play a game of chess but just not certain openings. Anyway I don't think it is really necessary to do that, with some work it should be possible to get a good score against 1.h2-h4 or other such lines... > >Another nice thing I see often: Someone starts a new (C)-account, most of the >time with crafty and a GHz-munster of computer. After that it sees my little >Quark and plays as many games as possible. (Well, first it must play some >different opponents, but when it has more then 20 games he starts with that) >So they get amazing high ratings in the beginning... (Sometimes, from time to >time Quark can fight back... :) I think Compaq should sponsor one of their computers with at least four Alpha processors and Crafty on it for ICC! They should dub it Deep Alpha, Neutron 2001, Station Alpha or The Alpha Quadrant and every account that is doing that should be forced to play a least 100 games against it before it can play anybody else again! > >At the moment I am really considering to at least noplay crafty-clones because >of this behaviour. Or maybe all computers - but I do not want to do that because >some other programmes use my program (and it's uncommon style) to test certain >things... > >Funny is that all programmers are sportsman in this case... but there is not >much sportsmanship on most of the new (C)-accounts... > >Greets, Thomas Success with Quark! Eelco
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