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Subject: Re: Offically Announcing CHCT 2005

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 17:55:09 02/26/05

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On February 26, 2005 at 16:01:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 26, 2005 at 11:55:04, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On February 26, 2005 at 09:48:44, Günther Simon wrote:
>>
>>>And what about the cheating issue? As long as there is some
>>>money involved one has to deal with it.
>>>Are there only titled Humans allowed or just anyone?
>>>
>>>Guenther
>>
>>There are only titled humans allowed.
>>
>>This is the _exact_ reason it was decided that any individual can enter any
>>program. With all Chessbase engines one has to either enter the moves by hand or
>>use the winboard232d adapter. There would be virtually no way of telling if a
>>person is using the correct engine.
>>
>>Allowing only titled human players cuts down the cheating big time.
>>
>>Peter
>
>I do not see how it can cut the cheating.
>I do not see how you can prevent titled players to consult with a computer and
>play advanced chess.
>
>When I think about it I expect some GM to play advanced chess and fight for the
>first place inspite.
>
>He is going to lose some seconds of entering the moves to shredder9 in another
>computer but it is not blitz so it is not very significant and if the position
>is simple win he can stop it and win it by himself.
>
>Uri

Plus he can play anti-computer lines, prevent the computer from doing truly
stupid things, play recaptures automatically, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
My money is on a reasonably strong positional GM using Shredder and annihilating
all of you ;)

anthony



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