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Subject: Re: ICC rule 7. is lame, but Pablo's trick is too.

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 11:13:49 05/23/05

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Hi David,

> Your reply is more or less what I expected.  If your program is being
> exploited, fix it rather than complain that an ordinary human is beating it
> with "tricks."

right - with the winboard protocol this is quite easy, especially because the
GUI TELLS you wether the opponent is human or not and how strong he is. The
problem under different GUIs and protocols is, that the engine is not aware who
is the opponent.
Because most Anti-Human routines against e.g. anti-chess can harm the
performance against other programs.
But of course Bob is right, the holes have to be closed, nothing else - I really
wonder why so many complain about Pablo's games. In fact, as long it is possible
for him to draw the machines so often they simply do not deserve their rating.
I think back to those days where ChessTiger was playing at ICC and some
operators abort the game when the human opens with a certain opening. THIS is
lame ! If it is possible to beat it again and again with the same variation it
is correct when it got beaten, it's rating is to high then.

Greets, Thomas



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