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

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 21:34:40 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.



But he's winning about every 3rd blitz game, right?



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