Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 03:55:08 07/26/02
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On July 26, 2002 at 05:49:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 26, 2002 at 05:42:42, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>The operator can be denied the computer account if the rumor is believed by the >>ICC admins. The information in the finger notes are required for computer >>accounts and must be accurate. >> >>Also, inaccaurate inforamtion pisses off many other computer account operators >>who may thereby decide to noplay ruffian. >> >>Inventing rumors is not harmless fun. > >All good points. From stories I have heard second hand, ICC doesn't seem to need >a ton of proof for things like this. For example, on r.g.c.m there was a guy >complaining that ICC accused him of cheating because he had Fritz running int he >background analyzing another game. He said they made him either attach something >to his finger notes saying that he was caught cheating, or they would make his >account a computer account. The interesting part was that he was a weak player >rated (IIRC) around 1400, and he won something like 7 out of 12 games against >similar opposition. Apparently (if this story is true...who knows) ICC didn't >bother to run his games through a computer to see if they were computer level. > >Of course, that story might just be a rumor :) > >Russell The other thing that could be going on is there is a big difference between ratings derived from playing humans and other computers. Equivalent hardware and indentical software can still result in a HUGE difference in rating. If some unknown program is doing much better than expected, it could just mean that it plays a lot of humans. You can't conclude much of anything unless you do a really detailed study that takes into account what type of opponents it has been playing. The off the cuff assessments are worthless.
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