Author: Pablo Ignacio Restrepo
Date: 20:30:17 05/23/05
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Are you Moonbean nickname in ICC? That was the game Dr. Best regard, Pablo. On May 23, 2005 at 21:16:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 23, 2005 at 11:24:03, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On May 23, 2005 at 11:18:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 23, 2005 at 11:07:32, Matthew Hull wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Well done. I did look at a few of the games myself and came to a similar >>>>conclusion. Pablo's trick would not work so well at long time controls, I >>>>think. He certainly could not do it "on demand" such as in a six-game showdown >>>>at 120 0. But even though it's a lame trick, it should be allowed and >>>>programmers are responsible to fight against tricks. >>>> >>>>I think the ICC rule 7 is wrong-headed. If I were running ICC, I would allow >>>>repeating lines against programs. It is the programmer's responsibility to make >>>>a better program than to allow itself to be exploited. It is just another >>>>program weakness that needs fixing. There is no need to defend program >>>>weaknesses with extra rules. I would allow (and even encourage) players to >>>>punish such programmer oversights relentlessly. That's how you get better >>>>programs. >>>> >>>>I'd bet money Bob Hyatt agrees with me on this. >>>> >>>>:) >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>Pretty much. >>> >>>I've always been a believer in "take control of your own destiny." >>> >>>I'd be more than willing to have him play crafty in 3 0 games as long as he >>>wants. And I'd bet money crafty will _never_ lose a 3 0 game against a human. >>>And it won't lose against a computer unless the game is _way_ long, say 500 or >>>more moves... >>> >>>There are really two kinds of people in the world. >>> >>>1. The kind that complain when something is exploited. >>> >>>2. The kind that recognize when something is exploited and then fix it so that >>>it can't be exploited again. I went thru this in losing to very fast humans (no >>>longer possible), repeating bad opening lines (book learning helps but doesn't >>>totally solve it but positional learning offers even more help; The "trojan >>>horse attack" was killing everyone and producing lots of complaints. I chose to >>>prevent the attack. Etc. >> >> >>Speaking of Crafty, where is it? It seems to have gone AWOL on ICC. :) > > >No idea. Looks like a network glitch snapped the connection without telling my >end it was closed. I just restarted xboard...
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