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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:36:04 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 13:00:54, odell hall wrote:

>On August 26, 1999 at 10:42:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 26, 1999 at 01:57:24, odell hall wrote:
>>
>>>On August 26, 1999 at 00:51:22, Joakim Nilsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I agree with you.Every (C) has some form of crazy formula that makes it
>>>>impossible to play if your manually operated :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> I think many of the crafty clones are afraid of manually operated computers,
>>>because they know that most likely they will get fritz5, or chessmaster 6000 or
>>>one of the other strong commerical program, which ofcourse will damage their
>>>"superinflated ratings" (in the words of Data on icc)
>>
>>
>>Then I wonder why "crafty" will play 60 60 games vs such programs?
>
>
>
>  I was not speaking about Crafty, but "some" of the Crafty clones, Crafty is
>pretty much protected because it runs on a Monster of a machine, not to many
>people have such hardware, but I tell you what , Reduce crafty down to a pent
>400 and I will beat it all day long.


There are plenty of PII/400's on ICC.  And I don't doubt that you can beat it
some... but if you mean you can beat it all day without losing, I hope you don't
wager any money on such an outcome...



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