Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:05:14 03/12/01
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On March 12, 2001 at 11:52:15, Pete R. 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) >> >>Well, they can do what they want, but I think those operators are really no >>sportsman... >> >>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. > >Just curious, do any computers on ICC play UN-rated games? And if they did who >would play them? I would like to do investigations of certain lines by having a >computer play them online against all opposition (and I couldn't care less if >people "cheat", in fact I would approve, since the goal is to test the lines >against best possible play), but I don't want to get into all this >ratings-grabbing nonsense. Obviously if I play selected lines I run into the >possibility of losing or drawing repeatedly until I adjust the book, etc. I >don't care about ratings, but I don't want to feed people that do either. Mine plays unrated games. Whenever I boot it up though, no humans will play it, and I've got to dink around a bit to find a computer that will play, since they are all primping their ratings by playing with !computer in their formulae. bruce
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