Did black used an egine (no names!)

~~vandervelde~~

Only Chess

26 Feb 12

~~vandervelde~~

Joined: 10 Dec 11
Moves: 143494

26 Feb 12

-3

Okay, it's not a big deal, it's just a question of curiosity.

1. reason
Black made regular gaps between moves after 3rd, even with the obvious moves...
2. reason
Hm, feeling.

My moves are sometimes - as usual - patzerish, but I had a "strange, cold feeling" like I am playing against a bot in dark, waste space 🙂 - and it wasn't a draught.

If anyone has an engine to check?

kingshill

Mr Ring Rusty

Wales

Joined: 02 Jun 11
Moves: 28718

26 Feb 12

If it was an engine it wan't a very good one..!

~~vandervelde~~

Joined: 10 Dec 11
Moves: 143494

26 Feb 12

🙂 Maybe Trabant? (fossil model)

Thabtos

I am become Death

Joined: 23 Apr 10
Moves: 6343

26 Feb 12

No engine I've seen wastes tempos like that.

Mad Rook

Joined: 19 Jun 06
Moves: 847

26 Feb 12

Not only not a very good engine, but not a very good opening book, either. Out of book on move 2.

I think you're seeing engine ghosts.

Stamp

Joined: 21 Feb 07
Moves: 59053

26 Feb 12

It's the Saragossa opening reversed, which was popular with some of the older engines.

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

28 Feb 12

2

Originally posted by vandervelde
1. reason
Black made regular gaps between moves after 3rd, even with the obvious moves...

So? This is a correspondence site. I regularly check in only every day or so, and then I will spend a week looking at my games twice a day, and then go back to skipping days.

2. reason
Hm, feeling.

I'd get that feeling recalibrated. No engine plays quite that randomly, unless you set it to 1-sec reaction times.

Richard