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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