Fetch Chess Club

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SPR Apr 2021 12:27pm, 28 Apr 2021 34,054 posts	0 SPR That's very generous terms by Goofee, lol.
Chrisull Apr 2021 12:34pm, 28 Apr 2021 17,524 posts	0 Chrisull Have we heard back from JogWalker or Surelynot on the result of their appeals? I mean no-one here has suggested any impropriety whatsoever, and it seems possible, given we've fallen foul twice (as a community) that we (someone else on here) will fall foul again. I mean I'm assuming they are "innocent til proven guilty", but both players said they were innocent, and other than falling foul of an algorithm, the relatively lowly rankings and experience of play suggests the algorithm is seeing issues where there aren't any. We should perhaps as a group be supporting any appeals? I mean I'm not saying we automatically trust every fetchie, just because they are a fetchie, but here it does seem like a) it's spoiling cups and leagues and b) casting aspersions on the characters of people. In all my experience of playing chess online (which is years), only once have I suspected a computer against me, and that was in a fairly tame equal endgame, a 5 move crush was used to force me to lose a knight, and when I played it back only that exact combination - which was a very odd one ( a kind of thing a computer would see but a human wouldn't, unless it was a very good one, and the ranking of this person suggested not) worked, everything else was pretty drawnish. But I said nothing as I won the league tournament anyway.
Goofee Apr 2021 12:35pm, 28 Apr 2021 3,690 posts	0 Goofee It sounds that way, SPR, but actually it's a devious psychological tactic - just don't let chunky know!
monsenb1 Apr 2021 12:58pm, 28 Apr 2021 2,072 posts	0 monsenb1 So teaching chess to children lowers their risk aversion, doesn't work for me, having a 3 day limit on moves has just made me more risk averse (as anyone in my league is realising, sorry guys!, especially after I cocked up against SPR, twice, lol). I just mull over, analyse a bit, mull over again, analyse a bit etc. etc and then invariably play a rubbish move In the games I'm up on, I'm convinced its because I've bored you to death, but I guess it won't last https://phys.org/news/2021-04-children-chess-decrease-aversion.html#:~:text=A%20trio%20of%20researchers%20from,reduce%20their%20aversion%20to%20risk.&text=The%20researchers%20found%20that%20most,variety%20of%20game%20playing%20scenarios.
monsenb1 Apr 2021 12:59pm, 28 Apr 2021 2,073 posts	0 monsenb1 try again phys.org
JoeCarr28 Apr 2021 4:12pm, 28 Apr 2021 34 posts	0 JoeCarr28 Blimey ... after nearly 5 months of play my Runners opponent timed out! We won!
JulesR Apr 2021 4:17pm, 28 Apr 2021 26,154 posts	0 JulesR That’s brilliant Joe! Tremendously well fought from a few losing positions along the way. Fetchaies have won a match:)
monsenb1 Apr 2021 4:22pm, 28 Apr 2021 2,074 posts	0 monsenb1 brilliant!
mole-thing Apr 2021 4:34pm, 28 Apr 2021 2,063 posts	0 mole-thing Well done everyone.
iRicey Apr 2021 4:34pm, 28 Apr 2021 504 posts	0 iRicey Whooop. Definition of playing the long game.