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Subject: Re: CadaquƩs Tournament: yahoo info

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:51:28 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 18:03:01, robert michelena wrote:

>Just log on to yahoo advanced 1 or 2; 99.99% of all red and orange rated players
>use programs.  Just look for me (rebel_tiger_12; hiarcs_732_blitz_engine).  I
>can introduce you to the others who admit to using programs.  Perhaps we can set
>up a round robin tournament.  So far, there are about 30 of us who test our
>programs.
>
>PS:  There are, of course, some who continue to claim that they are using their
>"brains", instead of programs, but we usually laugh at them and humor them.
>Nobody takes them seriously.

This sounds strange to me.  I went to Yahoo once, because some of my
non-tournament-chess buddies encouraged me.  I played 5 games, rolled a few
people, wound up at 2565 after 5 games, and dismissed it as patzerville. :)

I kind of doubt that the red players I was playing were using a computer,
becuase then my kingside attacks might have met with some serious resistance.
(As I recall, it was fairly buttereqsue. <grin>)  I did challenge someone with a
16000 rating before I left, but they declined.  I assume they just created a ton
of accounts, and played themself over and over again to get a really high
rating.

Dave



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