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Subject: Re: Snobbery on ICC servers I cannot get a Game !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:39:25 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 00:23:54, odell hall wrote:

>Hi
>
>  What's the Deal on Icc, it seems practically every computer has some kind of
>formula, I cannot get a decent game of chess.  Not only does humans refuse to
>play you if you are a computer, but also computers won't play you. Some of these
>operators protect their ratings as if they personally earned them themselves! I
>think the whole matter is getting a little rediculous. I excluse these comments
>to data, and singacrafty, also superchicken who seem to be generous as far as
>allowing games with computers.


Crafty plays anybody/anything... but it requires that you be reasonably
close to its rating (within 400 points) and that your rating be _established_
which is an ICC recommendation.  Because otherwise when it is rated at 3000,
you could play it 20 games, lose them all, and _still_ end up rated 2600 which
screws up the rating pool a bit (inflation).

If you want to play unrated, let me know.  Or after you become established,
feel free to play...



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