Author: Amir Ban
Date: 08:13:57 10/27/99
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On October 27, 1999 at 00:30:45, James B. Shearer wrote: >On October 26, 1999 at 12:54:02, Amir Ban wrote: > >>I got noplayed by crafty last week. I think it was playing more than 4 games in >>a row rather than disconnecting. At the time crafty's rating was 3146, so it >>seems it's rating jump is a result of noplaying ban. Crafty & clones typically >>gain around 200-300 points when they don't play other computers. I didn't >>realize crafty's noplay list is so long, but looking at it it effectively >>doesn't play top computers any more (ferret is hardly around these days). > > The bit about 200-300 points is hard to believe. In fact I don't >believe it. If this were true the crafty clones would be continuously pumping >rating points from the human pool to the computer pool. To maintain balance >some computers in the computer pool would have to be pumping just as many points >back into the human pool. Which computers do you think are doing this? I've >been playing crafty clones to inflate my rating but apparently this is all wrong >and I should be playing some other computers. Which are they? > James B. Shearer Mofongo, eggsalad, counterplay, wyrm and others. Some of them don't exclude computers in their formula, but they noplay me, and have always done so. I don't know who else they're noplaying. To find them, simply look at the top of the blitz list for crafty clones. To find those that play with everyone, look much lower in the list. Last year there were several top computers playing regularly on ICC, and the standard 'high' rating was in the 2900's. Now serious comp-comp competition is almost disappeared from ICC and crafty, the only one still around, has gone up around 200-300 points. Amir
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