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Subject: Re: icc obsession

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 01:11:48 03/26/04

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On March 25, 2004 at 13:13:32, Benny Antonsson 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
>
>The same thing happend to Alarm with the same guy !
>I noplayed him after a while.

This sort of person should be treasured, you can't buy testing that good.



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