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Subject: Re: ICC BLITZ Top ratings are extremely inflated

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 17:38:32 05/06/99

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>>3) Anti-computer specialists.  This is really just a special case of #2.  These
>>people play a very slow, quiet game that is difficult for computers, or they
>>search for holes in the opening books of automated computer accounts and exploit
>>them.  My program, Grok, has recently suffered from this...
>
>Thank these people.  They are doing you a favour.  Every time they bust your
>opening book and you have to fix it, that's one less hole for someone to hit you
>with in a real tournament.
>

Well, I only partially agree.  It is quite helpful the first time.  When they
repeat the same line 4 or 5 times, it's annoying.  I try to patch the holes as I
find them, but sometimes it's too late.  Book learning is what I need, but I
have more pressing issues (bugs) to deal with at the moment.  :-)


--Peter



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