Author: Eye Witness
Date: 17:08:15 07/09/02
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On July 09, 2002 at 20:01:10, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 09, 2002 at 19:19:59, Eye Witness wrote: > >> A Player VERY well known to all that post here has just won $10,000 dollars at >>the world open in the under 1600 section >>http://www.worldopen.com/results/1600.htm >>, finishing with a near perfect score, 8.5 out of 9(giving a courtesy draw in >>the last round)!! Last year this same player played in a section below this, >>the under 1400 and could only barely get 3.5 out of 9! This is not a kid, but a >>man probably in his early 40s! At the tournament he had an ear piece and >>headphones at every game! He also played a new opening almost every game! He >>has been week, and has never shown any performance even remotely close to this. >>He has further gained extensive knowledge about computer chess from this forum. >>I saw one game where he could have won a queen for a rook, but instead he went >>for a more complcated tactic to win a rook out right very computer like >>calculation of 5 points vs 4 for the exchange. > >Are you implying that he probably cheated? It could be that he has been testing >different chess engines and improved a lot by observing them play. > >PS: My heading is a little misleading, but I'm NOT implying that he used CT 14.9 >for Palm. > >Pichard I don't imply i'm just asking a question :). In any case he played in a tournament 1 week earlier where he scored a whole 1.5 out of 5 and the game he won he was dead lost, except for a blunder, on the part of a 70 year old man!
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