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Subject: Re: CCT4 - Thanks to All

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 13:29:28 01/27/02

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On January 27, 2002 at 16:07:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>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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