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Subject: Re: HIARCS 9 and Anti-Chess

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:56:18 05/23/05

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On May 23, 2005 at 07:54:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 23, 2005 at 07:29:21, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 23, 2005 at 05:39:00, Darrel Briley wrote:
>>
>>>On May 23, 2005 at 05:13:04, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 23, 2005 at 00:08:52, Darrel Briley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 22, 2005 at 19:28:53, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On May 22, 2005 at 18:53:07, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I am thinking chess is in a coin.
>>>>>>>Human beings for ever playing in one face.
>>>>>>>Now I am playing in the other face:"Antichess".
>>>>>>>Computers are as a fortres where owner forgot to clouse a little door behind.
>>>>>>>You must enter across this doar. Forget the front.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Congrats Pablo! This was an nice game, but last after 15 losing games.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You losing 1 : 16 against Hiarcs 9. I seems Hiarcs 9 is very strong against
>>>>>>Anti-Chess.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Or?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ed:)
>>>>>
>>>>>I assume the reason you see such things on Playchess.com and not ICC is due to
>>>>>ICC's rules prohibiting playing the same line(s) repeatedly against an engine
>>>>>until you FINALLLLLY get a win.
>>>>
>>>>I do not know about a rule in ICC that prohibit playing the same lines
>>>>repeatedly against an engine.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>http://www.chessclub.com/help/abuse
>>>
>>>7. Playing the same line over and over against a computer, to gain rating
>>>points. We will edit your rating to whatever we feel is reasonable if you do
>>>this.
>>>
>>>Accounts that abuse, distort, or cheat the rating system on ICC may have the
>>>ratings adjusted, may be added to the "disconnectors" list (causing immediate
>>>loss upon disconnection), may be prevented from playing rated games, or may lose
>>>their ICC account entirely. These actions will be taken at the sole discretion
>>>of the ICC administrators.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>This rule is talking only about trying to get rating
>>
>>People are still allowed to play the same line over and over in friendly games
>>against computers.
>>
>>I also think that the rule is not fair.
>>
>>It means that playing the same line over and over against an human to gain
>>rating points is allowed and playing against convenient human opponent is also a
>>trick to get rating points.
>>
>>If the target is to do the rating fair then it is better to forbid people to
>>play for rating except playing in open swiss tournaments when you cannot choose
>>your opponent.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I can add that the rule is also against programmers.
>
>Suppose that a programmer implemented some new learning function in order to
>prevent humans to earn rating by repeating the same line again and again.
>
>How can the programmer check if the learning works when humans are not allowed
>to try repeating the same line again and again.
>
>Uri

I am not sure, but I believe you misunderstand the reason behind this rule. The
idea is to stop playing obvious programs that are malfunctioning. I have
encountered programs that have stopped moving when it get out of book etc. I
could have earned quite a lot of rating at ICC that way....

Torstein



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