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Subject: Re: Robert J Fischer and Gullible ICC GMs & IMs

Author: Tanya Deborah

Date: 03:42:50 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 05:25:34, Karpov wrote:

>
>Out of no where a GM on ICC asked me to play a guest who supposedly was his
>friend. I played that guest and immediately recognized the guy who often comes
>to ICC as a guest claiming to be a super GM. I have seen this guest on ICC for a
>couple of years. He plays moves like f3, Kf2, Ke3 etc. I am 100% sure that this
>guy is a computer whose program deliberately makes stupid moves to fool people
>in believing that he is not a comp.
>
>Today while playing the guest, I mentioned in a kib that the guest is a comp.
>Immediately after the game, two GMs and one IM sent me tells claiming that the
>guest was Robert J. Fischer (apparently, the guest has been telling these GMs
>this). For two hours I tried explaining, why this guest is a comp. Vars command
>showed that the guest was not using blitzin, he had incredible fast reflexes in
>a 1 0 game, just like a comp but too fast for a human, he has been seen on ICC
>for years, his opening book deliberately is setup to play stupid moves, etc.
>etc. But after hours of explanation, these gullible GMs were still convinced
>that the guest was Robert Fischer. One GM even claimed that Leko told him
>personally that this guest who comes to ICC often is Fischer.
>
>But since I have seen this guest for years, and since his reflexes are too fast
>for a human, I am 100% sure that the guest is a comp.
>
>Has anyone here seen this guest on ICC, or better yet, know who he is?
>
>One GM keep repeating that comps don't play like that. I tried to explain that a
>clever programmer can program a comp to play stupid moves occasionally and give
>it a stupid opening book (that will play stupid moved like f3, kf2, ke3 etc.).
>
>Does anyone want to help me in showing this GM that a comp can play like that?
>i.e. occasionally making stupid moves with idiotic opening like f2, kf2, ke3,
>but still strong enough to beat any GM in 1 0.
>
>If anyone here wants to help, please let me know.
>
>Adnan
>
>(note that my CCC e-mail account is no longer valid ..  the current valid email
>is karpov@softhome.net )



Hi!
About 3 months ago, i played with a Guest that play this kind of moves!
but after this stupid moves, the guest played very very good the other moves.
It was a very rapid game. I think that was a 1 min+2 game.


It is very interesing.  Could you please post some games of this Guest?
Tanya.



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