Ligon, Scott   (USA)       [FICGS member # 12964]



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Scott Ligon


In all my games I will be running Stockfish 17 in a deterministic configuration and playing the move it suggests. My opponents will be able to know in advance how I will respond to any given move. See forum post for details: http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=forum_read&id=13738


Scott Ligon has currently 23 running correspondence chess game(s), won 49, lost 0 and drawn 224 other games against an average elo of 2220, does not play advanced chess (fast time controls), does not play big chess, does not play Go (wei-ch'i, baduk), and does not play poker, finally Scott finished a total of 273 games and is still playing a total of 23 games.



Correspondence chess statistics :

vs. Herbert Kruse (2370) :   50%   (19 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Bahadir Ozen (2251) :   50%   (16 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Ilmars Cirulis (2260) :   54%   (11 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Janusz Swiatek (2235) :   77%   (9 games, 5 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Vjacheslav Perevozchikov (2290) :   50%   (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Theodore Mirra (2279) :   50%   (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Aniruddha Duttagupta (2253) :   62%   (8 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Niklas Hallqvist (2161) :   50%   (7 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Garvin Gray (2298) :   50%   (7 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Sergey Kireev (2273) :   50%   (7 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)




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Last messages by Scott Ligon in the forum :


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-01-21 23:17:17)

And now I have found a line that defeats Stockfish 17 at 10 million nodes, so that strategy is not safe to play as black. I won't post the line yet be (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-01-17 14:44:57)

To be clear, I still don't know if it can be beaten at 10 million nodes. Someone might eventually find a line with white that beats Stockfish 17 at th (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-01-07 20:14:22)

And then type "quit" to close Stockfish.

If you're trying to run Stockfish from the command line for the first time, it (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-01-07 18:55:30)

I am running an experiment where each move will be selected by Stockfish 17 in a deterministic configuration, so it will be possible to predict my res (...)


Fried Liver analysis on rybkaforum.net?    (2024-01-16 20:31:54)

The Fried Liver just seems like a bad choice for black when the main line (5... Na5) equalizes, and if you want something different there's 5... b5 wh (...)


Fried Liver analysis on rybkaforum.net?    (2024-01-13 20:47:35)

In that case, I don't think white can improve on the following line (depth 49):

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd (...)


Fried Liver analysis on rybkaforum.net?    (2024-01-12 22:51:02)

For the 6 lines I posted, those eval depths are, in order:
46, 47, 45, 46, 45, 43.

For the line with the highest eval o (...)


Fried Liver analysis on rybkaforum.net?    (2024-01-12 01:54:00)

The Lolli (6 d4) is no better for white. Black survives in the following line, and white has no other options worth checking.

1 (...)


Fried Liver analysis on rybkaforum.net?    (2024-01-11 23:22:00)

I checked the Fried Liver with Stockfish 16, just far enough to convince myself that black can probably hold the draw. I'll post five key lines along (...)


Next thematic tournament    (2023-08-10 00:48:11)

The Budapest's less respectable cousin. Might just be losing for black but I'm not entirely sure. If engines are allowed, I'm interested. (...)