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(note that my CCC e-mail account is no longer valid ..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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