Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 21:33:18 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 10:53:30, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 10:14:39, Engin Üstün wrote: > >>why many players are afraid to play against computer on ICC ? >>when i was loging on ICC i must wait for a long time until a human play a game >>against Tornado, sometimes many people break the game before is started. >> >>if i look other computers they are played allready thausends of games on ICC and >>wonder about this how. >> >>i am just logged in on ICC, if anybody want to play against Tornado, the name is >>"Tornado-C" >> >>And i wonder why many of computer are not playing against computer or making >>some little tournaments on ICC, because computer are not allowed to match >>against humans and playing on human tournaments. > >First the rules, as computer you're not allow to match humans and you're only >can match other computers, are fair. It's comes from the old times where hundred >or more computer accounts was online. >Today the numbers of active computer accounts are very small and the most guys >changed to ChessBase, that i don't understand so far, but thats another topic ;) > >Some people, of our small accounts, only wanna have a higher rating or they want >have the highest rating on ICC, so they plays only humans. This is not sporty >and you should ignore such people, they are a shame. This is certainly true of some (C) accounts, but not all. The fact is, if you want to play blitz against the top humans then you have to have a rating several hundred points higher than them or they simply won't play you because they know their odds of winning (or even a draw) are pretty low. Even the GMs are sensitive to ratings and they'll play you if they only risk a rating point or two - but not 15 or 20. I run two accounts there on identical hardware, one plays all comers, one only Humans at rated blitz. Standard and bullet ratings aren't nearly inflated as blitz and so the issue doesn't really exist for those time controls.
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