07 Apr 03
Originally posted by legionnairewhat is scholar's mate?
This may be, but it doesn't explain why he has endless strings of games where the opponent resigns after the first possible move where resignation would award points to Gerbear. Or 30 or 40 games in a row against the same person ending in scholar's mate.
-mike
07 Apr 03
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Originally posted by legionnaireHave you looked at his/her games? Most of them are buba or nogginhead, proberly his/her younger younger brother. They are letting him win. I have already challanged gerbear. We will see.
This may be, but it doesn't explain why he has endless strings of games where the opponent resigns after the first possible move where resignation would award points to Gerbear. Or 30 or 40 games in a row against the same person ending in scholar's mate.
-mike
07 Apr 03
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Originally posted by UncleAdamScholar's mate typically follows this pattern (with a few potential variations for black):
what is scholar's mate?
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 Bc5 4. Qxf7+ (1-0)
It's probably happened to you very early in your chess career, exactly one time. Most people don't fall for it a second time. When it doesn't work it's an awful line for white, you bring out the queen way too early, and black can essentially develop all of its pieces while chasing white's queen around the board, setting up all sorts of potential forks and skewers that ruins white's position. Either that or white gives up two tempos bringing the queen back to d1, which has the same net effect on the game. It's very humorously analyzed in better detail in the 'Beating Aggressive Players' thread in the Chess forum.
-mike
08 Apr 03
Odd though, his 'subsidiary' accounts are playing real games with real players and, in fact, have 1200+ ratings (although a lot of the wins seem to be timeouts).
I just thought of a way you could artificially boost your rating - search for players who have obviously stopped playing on the site, challenge them and then claim the time-out :o
08 Apr 03
Originally posted by lionelRay,
Have you looked at his/her games? Most of them are buba or nogginhead, proberly his/her younger younger brother. They are letting him win. I have already challanged gerbear. We will see.
My guess is that he will refuse to make a move against you, because it would expose him to be the fraud that he is. I challenged him as well, as did silver24. Let's see if he decides to play.
And Fievel - I realize that you were joking when you said he's taking your #19 spot, but I think you're absolutely right. You worked hard to get in the top 20, it's not fair to you or anyone else that someone can get there by cheating.
-mike
