If you were curious about my method of beating Engine Monkeys, it relies on the fact that cheaters rarely cheat in only one game. If they cheat at all, it is typically in several games. So as soon as I realize that I'm playing against an Engine Monkey, I immediately go into damage control mode and try to slow down the tempo and draw the game out as long as humanly possible. This gives the Cheat Detection team as much time as possible to catch the cheater in one of his OTHER games, which results in me winning on time when the cheater gets banned.
It actually works the majority of the time.
How do you know you're playing against an engine monkey? I feel like its too arbitrary to simply say "they play too good". So, what's your analysis kind sir?
Intuition, based on more than 50 years of playing chess (my first chess tournament was in 1968) and on nearly 50 years of working with computers (my first job working on a room-sized mainframe computer was in 1974), while my last was as a Computer Systems Analyst for the military.
Engines don't "think" the way people do. People think by "chunking" the position and then manipulating those conceptual chunks. Engines "think" (if that word is at all applicable) by exhaustively calculating every possible move and every possible reply to every possible move, ad infinitum. The two methods feel different... at least to me.
If you feel that I'm wrong, then get back to me after you also have fifty years experience in both fields, and we'll discuss it.
What would be an example of what you see in engine moves vs. human moves? Whenever I check the analysis of my past games, they seem to want fairly reasonable moves seem and human to me.
If you were curious about my method of beating Engine Monkeys, it relies on the fact that cheaters rarely cheat in only one game. If they cheat at all, it is typically in several games. So as soon as I realize that I'm playing against an Engine Monkey, I immediately go into damage control mode and try to slow down the tempo and draw the game out as long as humanly possible. This gives the Cheat Detection team as much time as possible to catch the cheater in one of his OTHER games, which results in me winning on time when the cheater gets banned.
It actually works the majority of the time.
How do you know you're playing against an engine monkey? I feel like its too arbitrary to simply say "they play too good". So, what's your analysis kind sir?
Intuition, based on more than 50 years of playing chess (my first chess tournament was in 1968) and on nearly 50 years of working with computers (my first job working on a room-sized mainframe computer was in 1974, while my last was as a Computer Systems Analyst for the military).
Engines don't "think" the way people do. People think by "chunking" the position and then manipulating those conceptual chunks. Engines "think" (if that word is at all applicable) by exhaustively calculating every possible move and every possible reply to every possible move, ad infinitum. The two methods feel different... at least to me.
If you feel that I'm wrong, then get back to me after you also have fifty years experience in both fields, and we'll discuss it.