Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:06:51 03/13/01
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On March 12, 2001 at 23:05:14, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 There are other problems as well. _most_ (but not _all_) computer operators will play me anytime my rating is _higher_ than theirs. But not when I am lower. Humans won't play me if I have broken something and caused my rating to drop a couple of hundred points. They become suspicious that I have fixed the problem and that the program is greatly under-rated. And then there are the ones that like to prepare trick book lines and play one game here and there to use the trap... particularly playing games with colors. If you play me one game and get white, you can wait until that game is out of our histories and then pick the time to match me to get white again. And again. This has happened on several occasions. No end to the ways a rating can be inflated.
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