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Subject: Re: ICC Green List - Oct 11

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 11:27:14 10/12/99

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On October 12, 1999 at 09:59:26, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>Just for the sake of information: Topolino was "attacked" by two players in a
>row which found a few holes in the opening book (some were the same, which is
>suspect). Repeating the same winning line they have stolen some 150 ELO points.
>
>Topolino is now below 2400 (working hard to climb, but it seems that assholes
>are faster at stealing then topolino a regain its elo).
>The two nice fellows are now onmy blacklist of course: they are 'Florina' and
>'vitsi'.
>
>This is the way I'm payd back for allowing evrybody within 700 points to match
>topolino, and it is silly....

I would thank those kind gentlemen for finding the opening book hole, fix the
book, and move on.  This is the challenge of playing on ICC!  I enjoy it when
humans try attacking Beadle or LambChop (the 2 accounts running my program), it
is a good test of my program.  If the attack fails, I get the satisfaction of
victory.  If the attack succeeds, I learn something about my program.

There are plenty of things you can do to beat such attacks:
- wide opening book
- position learning
- somehow slightly randomise the first few moves out of book

cheers,
Peter
>
>regards
>Franz



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