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Subject: Re: ICC Compuer List

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 09:43:56 11/03/01

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On November 03, 2001 at 02:51:33, José Carlos wrote:

>On November 02, 2001 at 18:40:03, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2001 at 08:56:22, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>  It's not going to be easy for me to update this list with the same time
>>>interval everytime, but I'll try every 2-3 weeks.
>>>  For the next time, I'm collecting more information.
>>>
>>>Account       Standard     Blitz      Author            Hardware
>>>============= ========     =====      ======            ========
>>>Ferret		2725(=)	   2948(=)    Bruce Moreland    2x Ath-1200
>>>Crafty		2619(+95)  2915(-19)  Robert Hyatt      4x Xeon-700
>>>ChesterX	2591(+97)  2725(+56)  Knee Jerk         Ath-1200
>>>SearcherX	2566(=)	   2888(+10)  Frank Phillips    Ath-1200
>>>Yace		2533	   2907       Dieter Bürßner	Ath-1333
>>>Gambitmaster	2521(=)	   2732(-25)  Gerrit Reubold    Ath-1300
>>>KingKings	2499(+175) 2735(+16)  Koundinya Veluri  P4-1700
>>>LambChop	2466(=)	   2773(=)    Peter McKenzie    P3-1000
>>>Monsoon		2452(=)	   2674(=)    Scott Gasch       K3-450
>>>PostModernist   2422(-60)  2727(+24)  Andrew Williams   Ath-1200
>>>Diep		2421(+1)   2487(-123) Vincent Diepeveen 2x Cel-550
>>>QuarkX		2398(-11)  2678(+15)  Thomas Meyer      Ath-1300
>>>ArasanX		2396(+24)  2677(+240) Jon Dart          Ath-1300
>>>Sjeng		2344(+44)  2656(+126) G.C. Pascutto     Ath-1000
>>>AvernoX		2311(+14)  2461(+33)  José C. Mtnez.    Ath-1333
>>>TerraPi		2290(=)	   2202(=)    JPF               P2-300
>>>Dorky		2290(=)	   2472(=)    Matt McKnight     Cel-450
>>>Amateur		2262(=)	   2473(=)    Will Singleton    G4-533
>>>Hossa		2259       2598       Steffen A. Jakob	Ath-900
>>>Tinker		2258(+77)  2417(-51)  Brian Richardson  P3-733
>>>ExChess		2236(=)	   2538(=)    Dan Homan         P3-600
>>>Kerrigan(Stobor) 2191(=)   2543(=)    Tom Kerrigan      P3
>>>QueenMaxima	2168(-39)  2544(+74)  Hof Hajewiet      P2-450
>>>Gerbil			   2341(=)    Bruce Moreland    Xeon-450
>>>
>>>  There are two 'new' programs that I forgot the first time: Yace and Hossa.
>>>  If I'm still missing any one, please let me know. Remember this is a list of
>>>accounts run by the author. The only exception is Yace, but Dieter confirmed
>>>this is the 'official' account for Yace on ICC.
>>>
>>>  José C.
>>
>>Nice list.  I'd make one suggestion, fwiw.  I found that people want to know if
>>a program is actively being developed and playing lots of games, or if it was
>>dormant.  There are a few accounts on your list that are inactive, which don't
>>compare well with active accounts.
>>
>>I know that's a hassle to keep up with, which is why I automated mine.  Anyway,
>>just a suggestion to improve your already good list.  (you can remove amateur,
>>it's not playing.  maybe exchess, stobor and dorky too.)
>>
>>Will
>
>  Yep, you're right. There're som inactive accounts. I'm collecting the
>necessary info for next list. But I'd like to keep inactive accounts in the hope
>that the authors start running the program again :)
>  Why isn't amateur playing?. I used to play it some weeks ago, and I like to
>play it.
>  And how did you automate it? It takes me a good while to get the info and
>compare to last list.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  José C.

My program would keep track of all the relevant computer accounts, so that if an
account became active again, it would pop back on the generated list.

Amateur isn't playing because I don't have time to work on it, and there's no
point in playing over and over with the same old engine.  No useful feedback
that I don't already have.

To automate it, my program would telnet to ICC, finger each account in the list,
and process the ratings and games played.  All the stats could be generated from
that.  The only bit of work left was to scan the finger notes to see if anything
had changed, like hardware, program version, or whatever.

If you do end up automating it, I think a rolling average for the ratings is a
good idea, since the actual ratings fluctuate too much.  And, maybe adjusted by
cpu speed. :)

Will



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