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Christophe Czekaj (2007-09-03 12:53:52)
no chess engines
Hello Thibault,
I play here without chess engine. Anyway, recently I tried to play "hippopotamus defence", (with no good result yet, I have to admit) so a computer is no use, it doesn't understand anything, but perhaps it's hippopotamus which is wrong, not the computer ;-D. Anyway a difficult defence in correspondence play).
I began on this site with 2000, and so my elo was too high to play against human only ?
I don't see how it's possible a sofware detect computer use ? Ok we see strange, computer-like moves sometimes, but...
Perhaps two players, at the beginning of the game can agree to not use computer.
Again about chess engine, I use a computer to record the moves (chessbase),to gain time, and replay fast the moves to get to the actual position, but my chess engines (an old fritz (5) and chess tiger (14) all that on a old PC) would certainly suffer a lot use against more recent chess engines ;-D
Like Philip, I like to play on ficgs and it would be nice to plmay against more human opponent. I play one tournament on itsyourturn since last year, and I saw a lot more human mistakes than on ficgs. So, how explain it, I sometimes feel more comfortable on itsyourturn, but still I do like the spirit of ficgs, match against RU, the tournaments, forum, nice people to meet on the board, and so on
Don Groves (2009-02-26 01:47:00)
Modern/Hippo
I've played the Modern, also known as the Hippopotamus because it lies low in the water, waiting for its prey to make a mistake.
I have both won and been smothered with it. Black must strike quickly, at exactly the right time and place, or die a horrible death ;-)
Ulrich Imbeck (2009-02-27 01:21:58)
Modern isn't the Hippopotamus
Modern isn't the Hippopotamus.
Only Hippopotamus is a system of the Modern.
I'll never play a thematic tournament Hippopotamus
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