Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 21:14:19 03/11/01
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On March 11, 2001 at 23:40:56, Chessfun wrote: >On March 11, 2001 at 23:28:41, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >>On March 11, 2001 at 23:10:23, John Dahlem wrote: >> >>>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) >>> >>> >>>Are you kidding me? The Chess Tiger accounts dont accept 1.h4 because they >>>ALWAYS lose to it. There is no point in accepting a game starting with that >>>opening because it is over once it is played. The reason this user doesnt accept >>>that opening is to protect himself from cheaters, or at least people taking >>>advantage of a weakness in a program to inflate their rating. >>> >>> >> >>Well we were trying to find a way around that by making a user book with a few >>more moves in it against 1.h2-h4. People could do that easily themselves unless >>there is some glitch. >> >>See messages at http://www.rebel.nl/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000149.html >> >>I haven't tried this out myself but I thought it might work. I mean 1.h2-h4? But >>if it doesn't work I would like to hear about it. If necessary I could try to >>put a little Anti-Borg.BK together myself but I have no way of trying it out on >>the servers. That's why I would like to see some games if it isn't working yet >>as planned. >> >>Regards, Eelco > > >While creating a user book is simple as is adding lines to that book to >combat 1. h4. Making a large size book takes a very long time. > >It would be much easier if the *.tbk books could be modified or one was supplied >that was equal but with extension *.bk so as it could be modified. > > >Sarah. I was hoping that the two books could be used together, so that at least if you were out of book in the small user.bk e.g. if White doesn't play 1.h2-h4 the program would automatically go to the "big" book. The Help menu isn't very clear to me about this.. Lex, if you are reading this maybe couldn't you program that? But you are right Sarah, a way to make changes to any of the larger books would be much preferable. If that wouldn't make access under Blitz slower but I don't think that would have to be a problem? Have you ever tried making such a user book yourself, Sarah? Eelco
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