Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 16:05:17 01/02/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 18:19:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 18:09:01, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>On January 02, 2002 at 18:00:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>On January 02, 2002 at 16:56:46, Dan Andersson wrote: >>>>Fear of what? There are some issues here: >>>>The possibility of human intervention in this online tournament; >>> >>>Someone might cheat. That could happen at any tournament. But cheat with what? >>> Is Kasparov going to sit around and give advice? Against (for instance) >>>Shredder on a 1.x GHz machine, kabitzing is risky and stupid. If you are in >>>fear of that, then you are a true coward. Lame excuse negated. >> >>Come on Dann, there are excellent ways to cheat at an event like this. >> >>I could operate Sjeng as an advanced player, or worse, use Fritz 7 >>with slighly different settings instead. That would certainly boost >>my winning chances. > >Very easily detectable, if the program you use is available. That should be a >precondition to the contest. You can already start scratching several participants in that case. Ferret is a potential cheater, so he shouldn't join? >If you can only win by book-cooks, then that's pretty sad anyway. It is a pretty sad reality in that case. Of course they don't only win because of book-cooks, but they are a significant advantage. >There are several companies that did that[1]. I don't know if any of them still >do or not. I find such behavior reprehensible, but it is what I have come to >expect. It is nice to find a refreshing exception now and then. > >[1] At least 3 that I can think of. I would like to know who that are/were. -- GCP
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