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Subject: Re: Questionable behavior at ICC

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 12:57:59 04/23/05

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On April 23, 2005 at 13:19:05, Steven Edwards wrote:

>Some things I've noticed concerning questionable behavior at ICC:
>
>1. Elo 1200 humans mysteriously playing Elo 2400 chess, but only against my
>program and other programs.

This is the main reason most operators use some sort of rating formula. eg.
rating>myrating-500

>2. Human opponents playing five man endgames just as would a tablebase equipped
>program.

You will also notice the move times are the same as if you were to manually move
the pieces yourself.

>3. Opponents who repeatedly adjourn blitz games via disconnection.

Easily avoided. set noescape 1

>4. Established computer players without program/CPU finger notes, or any finger
>notes at all.

I just +noplay those individuals.

>5. Computer opponents that waste time by extensively analyzing a position when
>only one move is available, or when a quick forced loss is unavoidable.

This is unavoidable. Then a program is thinking, there is nothing you can do but
wait for it's move.

>6. Computer opponents that lack a reasonable resignation capability.

I used to set my resign factor at -6.5, but I have seen even computer blunder a
won game to a draw or even worse a loss.

Peter



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