Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 11:26:21 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 Try chess.net and beat mine up (Searcher). I am tired of losing to postaldan (tiger/rebel), comet, crafty, lots of other crafties, episcopal(gandalf).... Interesting comment about ICC, because I was considering paying to join. Not many of the better humans on chess.net seem willing to play computers. I can understand lower rated players not wanting to play (they get smashed) but thought the better players would welcome the challenge. Frank
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