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Subject: Re: Rybka Beta 13b loses to a 17-year old

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 21:07:09 02/08/06

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On February 08, 2006 at 23:45:46, Vladimir Xern wrote:

>>>Information about B-Amin(IM) (Last disconnected Wed Feb 08 2006 14:15):
>>>
>>>              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>>Bullet          2919        312  1098   207  1617   2949 (06-Jan-2006)
>>>Blitz           3190        746  1589   218  2553   3285 (30-Sep-2005)
>>>Standard        2670         74    98    39   211   2671 (19-Jan-2006)
>>>5-minute        2442        218   139    42   399   2514 (03-May-2005)
>>>1-minute        2290        729   572    67  1368   2433 (17-Nov-2005)
>>>
>>> 1: IM Bassem Amin Matta   17 years old
>>> 2: fide rating 2452 (1-2006)
>>> 3: Arab champion for men sep 2005 (  first GM norm), Arab champion U 20
>>>November2005 (2ndGm norm)
>>> 4:  African Champion U20 2004 , African Champion U20 December 2005 (3rd GM
>>>norm)
>>> 5: Arab champion U10,12and U14 two times
>>> 6: Fourth place in world championship in greece 2004 U16
>>> 7: Studying in the faculty of medicine first year
>>> 8: I am ready to play any where in the world
>>> 9: my e-mail  abbasof@yahoo.com
>>>
>>> Name   : Bassem Amin
>>> Groups : Egypt IMs
>>
>>i was under the impression that those types of blitz ratings were impossible on
>>icc for a human, could he be cheating?
>
>Look at the discrepancy between the number of blitz wins and losses. Such a
>discrepancy usually indicates (I think) that the lower rated human challenges
>extremely highly rated computers frequently (explaining the surplus of losses).
>Low risk, high gain as far as ratings go. For every 30 games losing nothing or a
>point he could win 1 game gaining 40 points and still come out on top.
>
>Someone please tell me if I'm wrong.

No you're correct.  And 3100 is far from impossible for a human.  Check out
Smallville's rating:  (he rarely plays computers)

Statistics for Smallville(GM)         On for: 1:13     Idle:    0

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild            1788  [2]    75    71     1   147   2321 (09-Aug-2004)
Loser's         1837  [6]    24    26     2    52   1885 (13-May-2005)
Bughouse        2322        469   359     0   828   2417 (16-Jan-2006)
Crazyhouse      2476        488   291     8   787   2587 (29-Aug-2005)
Bullet          3029       1695   367    82  2144   3108 (20-Dec-2005)
Blitz           3607       3219  1885   489  5593   3674 (15-Nov-2004)
Standard        2704        163    31    19   213   2855 (15-Jul-2004)
5-minute        2742  [8]  1272   286   101  1659   2800 (14-Jan-2006)
1-minute        2758  [8]  4755   745   196  5696   2914 (10-Nov-2005)

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