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

Author: Pablo Ignacio Restrepo

Date: 10:51:02 05/25/05

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Dr Robert Hyatt
Thank you very much Dr Robert Hyatt.
I am Welcome for testing your engine and new projects if you want.
I will be better and hope sure that engines will be better too.
Best regard,
Pablo


On May 25, 2005 at 10:21:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 24, 2005 at 13:16:12, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>
>>Dr Robert Hyatt.
>>
>>If in any moment you are interested in playing an engine against me as a humen
>>being, just tell me here in CCC, I will be Welcome to play if God get to me the
>>oportunity, into playchess engines room, or in ICC playing me as a guest.
>>I preffer playchess, I want to be honest.... For ICC is not a nice chess club. I
>>wrote why in my yesterday postes.
>>Best regard,
>>Pablo Restrepo
>>
>
>
>I do not play on playchess.  I use xboard as the interface for Crafty, which I
>don't believe works on playchess, or at least it didn't.  I play pretty much
>exclusively on ICC.  If there is a time you want to play, let me know (server
>time would help in time zone conversion) and I'll set it up...
>
>
>
>>
>>On May 24, 2005 at 10:48:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 23, 2005 at 23:30:17, Pablo Ignacio Restrepo wrote:
>>>
>>>>Are you Moonbean nickname in ICC?
>>>>That was the game Dr.
>>>>Best regard,
>>>>Pablo.
>>>
>>>No.  I run "crafty" and "scrappy" only.  The other crafty ICC players are run by
>>>others...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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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