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Subject: Re: icc obsession

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:54:48 03/25/04

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On March 25, 2004 at 13:00:41, Will Singleton wrote:

>A fellow at ICC found an opening against Amateur that, when played at 3 0, would
>allow him to win in a few moves.  A queen's pawn game, Amateur would fall to a
>quick kside attack.  I've never bothered to add book or position learning, so
>this guy played a bunch and won several games.
>
>So I thought, how can I quickly fix this without learning?  I noticed he was
>matching one of my seeks, which was 3 0.  I just changed the seek to 3 2.  With
>the extra time, Amateur now avoids the trap.  What's funny is the guy hasn't
>figured out he can just match me 3 0.
>
>I wonder how many games he'll end up playing. :)

I think these sorts of people are the most useful of all.
Who else will spend hours and hours searching for defects in your evaluation,
and make it totally obvious so that you have to give it some attention.
And he is not even asking for pay!
;-)



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