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Subject: Re: How do you stop cheating at this level?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 07:31:24 01/25/99

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On January 25, 1999 at 10:06:04, KarinsDad wrote:

>Not only is this interesting that someone has actually done this, but a bigger
>problem comes in on how to detect and stop it. You cannot analyze all of the
>games played by the winners of tournaments, can you? Opinions on how to stop
>this kind of thing guys?

Stop is hard to do during the tourney.
But if a 1900-rated guy plays a 2600 performance there is enough evidence that
s.th. is wrong there.

>I'm sure almost all of us has fantasized winning a big tournament this way since
>we are all interested in computer chess, but the majority of us are either:
>
>1) principled individuals
>2) chicken
>3) do not have a friend who would also be willing to cheat at this level (being
>successful without having a co-hort to handle unexpected crashes of the
>computer, etc.)

That is probably the easiest problem to solve.

>4) are not technical enough to setup some form of radio system

No problem to get informed.

>5) are not smart enough to do this without getting caught (announcing mate in 8,
>what was he, nuts?).

:-))
Funny. :-)
He did some normal things to hide his technical equipment: toupet with long hair
and glasses. Also no problem.
I could do it too. But personally I would get nothing out of it for all this
efforts.



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