Author: David Blackman
Date: 19:04:55 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 08:34:38, Jürgen Hartmann wrote: >The German Newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" today reports a funny story: Mr. >Allwermann, an Elo 1925 amateur of age 55 has won a nine-round 2h/40 swiss >tournament and achieved a performance of 2630. > >Jürgen Something like this happened in the USA a few years back. The culprit called himself "von Neumann" on the tournament entry. He was caught when either his computer or communications broke down. Rather than trying to finish the game on his own, he just waited for the computer to come back and eventually lost on time. I don't think his exact method was found out. I guess a 1925 player would not have the same problem since he could play on fairly convincingly by himself, and maybe even win a won game against a IM. BTW i hope the people making allegations here have checked out the games very carefully first. These days a lot of people retire from work at about age 55. Imagine someone with IM talent or better having time to study chess properly for the first time in their life. They might surprise a few titled players at tournaments. In fact this has happened here in Australia, and it is fairly certain that the player concerned is not cheating in any way. Playing a few computer-like strange moves is not necessarily suspicious these days, especially if the moves are early in the game. Someone plays practice games against Fritz, Fritz plays something weak looking at move 12, but the player can't refute it, so they decide to use it for themselves in tournaments. To detect cheating you would have to check out all the game scores carefully, preferably with the time information available. The people who run the internet chess servers are supposed to be very experienced at this.
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