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Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

GhotiFish 13y ago
Many people tried that strategy against Kasparov. No seriously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
hristov 13y ago
People still do that in chess.com. It is really annoying, because even if you are good enough to beat the computer, playing against a computer is very boring.
segmondy 13y ago
I hate you. I'm sure I played people like you. I like long games but people cheating forced me to play speed which I really hate.
- gohrt 13y ago
  Isn't the rating system supposed to solve this problem? Unless people intentionally griefed by creating new low-rating accounts to cheat at.
dharbin 13y ago
I wonder if you played anybody who was also proxying Windows chess? Battle of the computer wits!
- damon_c 13y ago
  It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.
  - mrgoldenbrown 13y ago
    This is already a thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championsh... It's enough of a thing that there was drama and accusations of cheating/plagiarism a few years back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and_banning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and...
    - mbatanian 13y ago
      There's also a (fictional) movie about this that's pretty interesting; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
  - shmageggy 13y ago
    A few hundred? Hundred thousand, maybe. Here are several sites where volunteers run computer chess tournaments 24x7 and publish the resultant rating lists. http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm There are more but these are the reliable and longest running that I know of.

GhotiFish 13y ago

Many people tried that strategy against Kasparov. No seriously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World

hristov 13y ago

People still do that in chess.com. It is really annoying, because even if you are good enough to beat the computer, playing against a computer is very boring.

segmondy 13y ago

I hate you. I'm sure I played people like you. I like long games but people cheating forced me to play speed which I really hate.

gohrt 13y ago
Isn't the rating system supposed to solve this problem? Unless people intentionally griefed by creating new low-rating accounts to cheat at.

dharbin 13y ago

I wonder if you played anybody who was also proxying Windows chess? Battle of the computer wits!

damon_c 13y ago
It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.
- mrgoldenbrown 13y ago
  This is already a thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championsh... It's enough of a thing that there was drama and accusations of cheating/plagiarism a few years back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and_banning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and...
  - mbatanian 13y ago
    There's also a (fictional) movie about this that's pretty interesting; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- shmageggy 13y ago
  A few hundred? Hundred thousand, maybe. Here are several sites where volunteers run computer chess tournaments 24x7 and publish the resultant rating lists. http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm There are more but these are the reliable and longest running that I know of.