Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:32:35 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 12:05:46, Andrew Dados wrote: >Hi Curtis. > >While I appreciate your urge of having a computer account being number one on >some list, let me explain you term 'eeker'. > >There are few players on fics and icc which will, for example, play reasonably >well wild 5 and then challenge newbies to it. This is all done to achieve one >goal: provide them with a game in which they have greater chance of winning >rating points then losing. Some achieve great heights (like Jan on fics). Since >rating calculations on fics (glicko) and icc differ, strategies there differ. >Anyway all those handles are usually hated by majority because they are >perceived as cowards and unfair. In one word: eekers. And there is nothing about >'being better' but 'having more points'. Formulas of yours account and several >others (scrappy being most famous) putting those accounts in advantageous >position fail clearly into eeking. > >While I usually ridicule eekers, I don't hate them. > >What I dispise is bragging eekers. Your case is even funnier: you did *nothing* >to achieve your goal, except setting your formula and maybe begging your daddy >for fastest machine. > >There is nothing yours in 'your' achievement. > >And that can be true reason people on ccc were dreaded when they read your >bragging. > >Happy eeking! >-Andrew- "Eek" is a term I saw defined in someone's finger notes in 1995 or so. On ICC, you get some known number of rating points for winning a game. This number can range from 0 to 32. To "eek" is to play a game that will result in one or two points for you if you win, so what is happening is that you are playing down several hundred points. Some people believe that they can be extremely consistent against people in that rating range, and so with some hard work they can make their rating go up above what it really "should" be. Eeking is what most computer players *don't* want to do, because they don't feel confident they can win better than 31 out of 32 against a 2600 player. bruce
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