About "Rated Games".

I know, most players here like Championships, or Monthly Cups.

But I prefer Rated games, actually.

But there is something to improve... often, the System creates new Rated games. And it happens, that I find two games against the same Opponent. This is not too bad; but, the system should probably be "smarter", and not assign White (or Yellow, or Black, or Red) twice to the same player. Why not switch?!

I will try to explain better. If the System creates two games "me vs. Miki" in Street Soccer, and I am "Yellow" two times, it's OK.

But if I have two Chess games starting in the same minute, against the same Opponent, and in both I am White... well, it might be annoying.

Have you ever tried this?!

DoP

I understand you perfectly... and you are right, if the system sees the possibility of linking up you and miki twice it should give you different colors.

I believe the system was intentionally programmed that way to avoid "copycat" technique...

Can you explain me what is "copycat"? Something like... a "mirror" strategy maybe?

Yes, a mirror strategy, a.k.a. Man-in-the-middle. I play white against Kasparov and black against the Duke of Prunes. By repeating Kasparov's moves to the Duke and the Duke's moves to Kasparov, I'm able to win against the Duke.

Note: Years ago I was losing a game of Hex here to a player who was channeling a very strong player by this technique. A fourth player noticed the similarity in the games and pointed it out, and the MITM confessed and resigned.

MITM doesn't work for games with chance like EwN and SS.

Yes, that was exactly what I meant, as MarleysGhost pointed out.

@MsG - MITM also won't work in Handicap Go, Dvonn with a random startup position and word games (as they are also chance dependent)

Marley wrote: I play white against Kasparov and black against the Duke of Prunes. By repeating Kasparov's moves to the Duke and the Duke's moves to Kasparov, I'm able to win against the Duke.

This just CANNOT happen. Because - I AM Kasparov.

I play so bad, because I don't want to be recognized ;-)

In this case, Duke Kasparov, you first need to recognize your other game ;)

Then, should you play/offer a draw ?

Or play silly moves on both sides ?

It's hard to force Marley to timeout, as he's a member and has a lot of vacation days.

;)

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What's the best way to deal with a MTM attack, besides blaming the man in the middle in a forum?

The best way of dealing with this surely is timing your opponent out by not moving until he does.