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Subject: Re: ICC top Program

Author: odell hall

Date: 11:58:35 11/21/99

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On November 21, 1999 at 14:44:59, walter irvin wrote:

>On November 21, 1999 at 10:56:21, odell hall wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 1999 at 09:33:32, James wrote:
>>
>>>Junior seems to be the current best program in use at ICC.  The uthor does well
>>>with it, and Good-boy has worked diligently to achieve the top standard slot.
>>
>>
>>  The problem is many of these programs carefully choose their opponents. I
>>wonder if it's rating would be so high if it could not control who it played.
>>Not taking anything away from the program, I just wonder.
>
>rating points mean every thing to the programs on there , so picking your
>opponents is almost as important as the program you run .the answer is there
>ratings would be much lower if they did not duck,slide ,run and hide .


  Exactly!! Seems like ratings mean more to these computer operators than it
does to the titled humans, who in my opinion have a right to worry about their
ratings as some make their living on attracting students. Just read some of the
finger notes of these computers, for instance one operator claimed that he no
longers plays computers because "everybody has been Picking on me Lately"?????



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