Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:07:54 01/27/02
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On January 27, 2002 at 15:53:30, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >Thanks to All, > >specially to Volker and Folgers, and all Participiants. Nice to meet you. My >first online Tournament - not less exciting than real "offline" Tournaments. > >Quite happy to reach 50% in this very strong field, due to a lucky draw againt >Crafty. I will post some test positions in the next days, where Isi faild. > >And i promise, that was my first and last online tournament, a played manually. > >The cheating potential is very high, when you play manually. >Two aspects: >1.forcing easy moves >2.waiting entering moves, if ponder hit in critical situations. > >The second one even appears, if you are a while away from your PC. So it's >strongly recommend to play automaticly - and may be to have common log-files. > >Some programs whispered their PV: "ah, it's expects Qd6 draw" and you see your >programs variation avoids draw by a loosing line and score of +0.01. >Nice to give the program more time then. In my opinion it would be better to >play quite - even in auto games. > >cheers Gerd I wonder if programs cannot cheat automatically by reading the pv of the opponent and use this information(for example for better pondering) If you see that the pv of the opponent is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 and your program has always the main line 1...e5 2.Nc3 then it may be better to ponder on 2.Nf3 and not on 2.Nc3) I am not sure if this idea is good but it is possible to calculate statistics about it. It is possible to think of other ideas to use the pv of the opponent. Uri
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