Author: Will Singleton
Date: 16:51:52 03/25/04
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On March 25, 2004 at 18:09:55, martin fierz wrote: >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 Well, he actually ended up inflating my rating, so he can play as much as he wants. I just checked, and today he played 128 games, winning 4.5 points. 128 games in one day!
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