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Subject: Re: WHY does everyone have to guess their rating at 1400 ? [nt]

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 17:42:55 01/12/04

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Hello Tord ,

>Perhaps in order to get more games against human opponents?  When I started
>playing with Gothmog on the ICC last summer (the first games were played on the
>3rd of July last year), I guessed my blitz rating at 2000, which turned out to
>be
>quite realistic.  Initially I got a lot of games against human players of widely
>differing strengths.  Since then the rating has slowly climbed, it is now at
>2725.  During the half year Gothmog has been playing on ICC, I have noticed that
>the number of humans who want to play the engine decreases when the engine
>strength increases.  I now almost exclusively play against other computer
>accounts.
>
>I expected that at least the number of GM-level human opponents would increase
>when the engine got stronger, but this hasn't happened.  During the first few
>months I had a lot of interesting games agains FMs and IMs, but these have now
>disappeared.  I never get any games against GMs.
>


This is referred to as: "It's lonely at the top."

:)



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