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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