Author: Dan Homan
Date: 10:21:02 07/01/98
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On July 01, 1998 at 12:35:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 01, 1998 at 11:38:00, Dan Homan wrote: > >>My program is set up to "tell" me when it is playing >>a game, so I usually pick up the games sometime in >>the middle game, after I notice the tell. > >Try saying "follow exchess", this way you don't have to do anything, and you >catch the whole game. > >>EXchess had been playing on ICC since early June and >>had maintained a blitz rating around 2300 on a P133 >>class machine for 600-700 games. However, on this >>day I noticed something disturbing.... EXchess was >>losing a lot, usually to assaults on its King. It's >>rating had dropped to the low 2100's in a few hours. > >This is surprising, even with no book, did you get one guy playing the same >thing over and over again? > >bruce Several players won several games in a row. I'll have to check the game files to see if they were repeats. I did not see any repeats in the games I watched, but it is certainly possible. My king-safety eval really wasn't very good, that combined with no opening book was killing me. Both problems needed fixing, but the process was started by the missing opening book. - Dan As an aside: one case really made me mad. There was this guy running a crafty clone, YucoII, who kept matching my program during this time period. 2800 vs 2300 isn't much of a contest. To make it worse, he was matching 1 0 games which my program handles poorly because of my coarse time management. I had my formula set up not to allow rated games from computers 200 pts or more above me and not to allow 1 0 games. I tried everything, logging out for a while... then back in. He just kept matching me, successfully - he must have been using some sort of rematch command to do it. Anyway it was obvious point grubbing, there was no interesting chess going on, so I +noplay'ed him.
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