Ligon, Scott (USA) [FICGS member # 12964]
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Scott Ligon
I run Stockfish 17 in a deterministic configuration and play the move it suggests. My opponents can know in advance how I will respond to any given move. Current search setting is 15 million nodes, except for games already in progress that started at 10 million nodes and will continue at that setting. See forum post for details: http://www.ficgs.com/user_page.php?page=forum_read&id=13738
Scott Ligon has currently 32 running correspondence chess game(s), won 50, lost 0 and drawn 260 other games against an average elo of 2231, 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 310 games and is still playing a total of 32 games.
Correspondence chess statistics :
vs. Herbert Kruse (2370) : 50% (40 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Bahadir Ozen (2251) : 50% (21 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Ilmars Cirulis (2260) : 53% (13 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Janusz Swiatek (2235) : 75% (10 games, 5 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Vjacheslav Perevozchikov (2290) : 50% (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Sergey Kireev (2273) : 50% (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Theodore Mirra (2279) : 50% (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Stanislas Gounant (2287) : 56% (8 games, 1 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)
Scott's favorite game is : Chess
Style of play : deterministic
Uses engines : always
Favorite chess player : Stockfish 17
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Last messages by Scott Ligon in the forum :
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-17 04:20:15)
Here are three lines I analyzed with Stockfish. I think black should be able to hold the draw in all of them, but the 10 million node strategy makes s (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-17 02:42:51)
Or if you just want to see what would have happened if you had played 52. Nxa8, we can analyze the game here. My impression during the game was that w (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-16 21:19:28)
Since I only won because you made a mistake entering the last move, I will give you a return match at 10 million nodes. You can play it however you wa (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-16 09:39:42)
I wouldn't draw that conclusion, but when I was looking at the 15 million node strategy as compared with 10 million nodes, I was happy to see that bla (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-15 22:20:35)
What I'm calling the winning line is only winning if black is restricted to the strategy of Stockfish 17 using 10 million node searches, though by the (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-15 15:43:10)
The position after 56 Ra7 is clearly winning if you run an analysis with Stockfish. I'm not saying it's obvious from a human perspective but if both p (...)
Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings? (2025-02-09 21:47:17)
My remaining games where I'm using the 10 million node strategy as black have gone past the point where they could transpose into white's winning line (...)
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 (...)