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 posts in my thread "Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?" for details.


Scott Ligon has currently 46 running correspondence chess game(s), won 52, lost 0 and drawn 274 other games against an average elo of 2230, 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 326 games and is still playing a total of 46 games.



Correspondence chess statistics :

vs. Herbert Kruse (2342) :   50%   (40 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Bahadir Ozen (2271) :   50%   (23 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Ilmars Cirulis (2268) :   52%   (17 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Janusz Swiatek (2255) :   72%   (11 games, 5 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Theodore Mirra (2304) :   50%   (9 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Vjacheslav Perevozchikov (2275) :   50%   (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Sergey Kireev (2303) :   50%   (8 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Stanislas Gounant (2310) :   56%   (8 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Aniruddha Duttagupta (2265) :   62%   (8 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Niklas Hallqvist (2193) :   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?    (2025-03-29 18:24:32)

Stockfish 17 at high depth is just too good though. Your best chance to defeat me is that I make a mistake entering the move. I try to be careful, but (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-03-29 18:03:58)

I think there's a decent chance that the 15 million node strategy is unbeatable, but I can't say what that chance is. Maybe I overestimate it. I have (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-03-29 15:42:08)

I played one last game using the 10 million node strategy against Pineda. The game ended in a draw, but I had to deviate from the 10 million node stra (...)


Stockfish unbeatable at modest settings?    (2025-03-04 16:30:48)

So the current state of the experiment is that white can defeat the 10 million node strategy, and so far I haven't seen a way for white to win against (...)


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 (...)