Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:39:38 06/16/03
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On June 16, 2003 at 15:23:07, Peter Fendrich wrote: >Suddenly a bunch of programs begun to match my engine Terra. It was accounts >with engines like Fritz 8, ChessTiger 15, CM9K and even Ruffian. Do I have to >say that they beated up Terra badly... What they had in common was their >extremely low ICC rating due to the fact that it was quite new accounts. Ratings >like 2300 and 2400 for these programs made Terra quickly losing 150-200 points. > >Is this a coincident or is something fishy going on that I should be aware of? > >/Peter I think it would be interesting to have an option similar to "no-playing" computers, but instead you could "no-play" computers that aren't run by their author. That way you wouldn't have to play a dozen different people all running Fritz, Shredder, Junior, Tiger, etc. on top of the line hardware. That's kind of like buying a rating. I bet for the money those people spent on their new computers, ICC would give you whatever rating you wanted :)
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