Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:09:55 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. :) > >Will hi will, i see you have the blk-gary disease :-) i admit, i had it too before you. he drained my engine too. once when i saw him repeating game after game, i told him he should stop or i'd report him and pointed him to "help abuse". he stopped, but continued the same stuff the next day, and the next, and so on. i finally ended up fixing the trojan problem in my engine. my advice: DO NOT NOPLAY THESE LOONIES! they are absolutely great. yes, my engine had a problem with trojans, and so does yours obviously or he wouldn't stick to amateur like a leech. but: if a "normal guy" beats you once with that kind of trick, you don't notice. i only noticed because muse's rating was suddenly very low, so i looked at the games and saw what was happening. as a result, i now have a bunch of avoid move trojan positions from actual play, which i can use. now muse's rating is back up where it was, and the last games blk-gary played against it were all easy wins. :-) cheers martin
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