Originally posted by John OsmarAll you need is access to the PGNs and some CPU cycles
Wouldn't it help if someone on RHP with access to the necessary software hired out as a consultant to RHP, testing the top-rated players and sending in the results? If you knew that you would be automatically tested at 2300, for instance, it would be a deterrent.
Just for fun... the program that generates this is mine so potentially I could have made a mistake ( I haven't run it or checked it in a year or so )... I use stockfish as the analysis engine coz it's free.. I have a fairly ancient i3.. I tend to keep the depth and maximum time per move low because I'm impatient ( which generally skews the figures downwards )....
Game ID: 11220362
Event: Hardcore Grand
Round: 1
White: cenerentola
Black: Ulf t
Result: 1-0
White moves: 78
White book exit: 12
Black moves: 77
Black book exit: 6
Top 1 move count for cenerentola: 53% (36/67)
Top 2 move count for cenerentola: 80% (54/67)
Top 3 move count for cenerentola: 91% (61/67)
Top 1 move count for Ulf t: 69% (50/72)
Top 2 move count for Ulf t: 91% (66/72)
Top 3 move count for Ulf t: 95% (69/72)
Blunders for cenerentola: 0
Blunders for Ulf t: 0
Missed mates for cenerentola: 0
Missed mates for Ulf t: 0
Forced moves for cenerentola: 4
Forced moves for Ulf t: 9
Player name: cenerentola
Game count: 1
Average top 1 move: 53% (1)
Average top 2 move: 80% (1)
Average top 3 move: 91% (1)
Blunders: 0
Missed mates: 0
Forced moves: 4
Player name: opponents
Game count: 1
Average top 1 move: 69% (1)
Average top 2 move: 91% (1)
Average top 3 move: 95% (1)
Blunders: 0
Missed mates: 0
Forced moves: 9
It's probably better to look at your own games than other people's... if you want to find where you threw a game away... here's my stats...
Player name: opponents
Game count: 95
Average top 1 move: 36% (95)
Average top 2 move: 52% (95)
Average top 3 move: 62% (95)
Blunders: 138
Missed mates: 0
Forced moves: 140
Player name: thaughbaer
Game count: 95
Average top 1 move: 44% (95)
Average top 2 move: 62% (95)
Average top 3 move: 71% (95)
Blunders: 80
Missed mates: 19
Forced moves: 177
19 missed mates.. what a fool.
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Originally posted by AspasiaI have complained to redhotpawn about engine users such as cenerentola, Ulf, TheBigKat, etc to no avail. They don't even grant me a response. King Tiger has also with no response. It becoming an epidemic on this site. If you look closely at profiles, how can a player play on this site for years at a much lower level (like 1500) and the suddenly shoot up into the 23-2400 range in a year while playing a lot games at once?
Boykott? 2000+ players can resign against Ulf and Cen with the 1st move. So they cannot climb higher and the others don´t fall down with their rating... :-))
I have come to the conclusion is that redhotpawn will do nothing. If I play one of these players now I just resign immediately or let my clock run out - although that is more of an annoyance to me then my opponent since I have to keep skipping that game waiting for a move!
It is really a shame. I drew cen in the first round of the memorial tournament. You entered a tournament and you have no chance in win (not that I expect to win, but at least I have a chance). I let my clock run out here and just played the rest of the pool. In another tournament I drew Ulf and just resigned immediately.
Originally posted by cardinalalI just tried to send Cener a PM and found I am on his ignore list. How bout this: Lets ALL of us send him PM's and see what happens, find out how many people he can put on ignore list. Anyone up for that? Just a PM saying something like, 'we know you use engines' is all it takes.
I have complained to redhotpawn about engine users such as cenerentola, Ulf, TheBigKat, etc to no avail. They don't even grant me a response. King Tiger has also with no response. It becoming an epidemic on this site. If you look closely at profiles, how can a player play on this site for years at a much lower level (like 1500) and the suddenly shoot ...[text shortened]... st played the rest of the pool. In another tournament I drew Ulf and just resigned immediately.
Originally posted by LundosI am playing in the 2014 May Long Haul Quartets I 1550-1700.
And while we 'joke' about this, the number of acitve members in the tables have gone from the 17.000-18.000 I remember a couple of years ago to 10.000-11.000 now. The first page is a joke, and most of the serious chess playing are leaving or have already left. If the forums weren't so good (and a lot of good people have left there too), this site would be in dire straits.
An enjoyable 1st round but in the 2nd we all have to play Ulf t.
2 of the 7 players who got through to round 2 stopped playing on RHP at the same time that round 2 started.Maybe because of Ulf t but I have no way of knowing.The remaining players are moving as slowly as possible with the hope,at least in my case, that he is banned before he wins and the rest of us can fight for the win.
It's all very sad.
And, who did win 2014 championship?
