Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 09:43:00 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 12:32:35, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I think eek is to carefully chose your opponents in order to hava bigger chance of winning rating points then losing them. For most human players strategy you described work best; some players will try to eek by challenging newbies with high provisional rating to wild or losers. I would call eeking every way of carefully choosing opponents/game/time controls to maximize your rating. Btw most good eekers have their rating bloated by good few hundred points. -Andrew-
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