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Subject: Re: Spitfire(Gambit 2.0) Highest rated comp. on ICC

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:50:48 07/08/01

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On July 08, 2001 at 10:55:02, Chessfun wrote:

>I am not sure of the need to say trolled, these accounts seek to play humans,
>if the human players accept the seek that's a choice. Not sure it's trolling.

Trolling is a form of fishing where you drag your bait through the water behind
a slowly moving boat.  The fish can choose to take the bait or not.

Any seek is an attempt to troll for an opponent, so the problem is not the use
of that word.

A very long time ago people figured out that computers were very strong at
blitz, and could get their ratings up very high if a strong human came along and
played a series of games.  These new accounts take advantage of this fact by
*only* playing strong humans.

I think this practice sucks.

bruce




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