Author: David Dawson
Date: 06:42:26 03/28/99
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On March 28, 1999 at 02:18:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On March 27, 1999 at 23:25:59, Mark Young wrote: > >>How often do inexpert players make unjustified accusations? > >A lot, I think. > >>I know that computer cheating is rampant, but some accusations and paranoia are >>clearly getting out of hand. I have been told by members on ICC and FICS that >>they think some FM and IM are cheating with computers. If paronoia has reached >>this level, its time to take a step back. > >An IM was busted for cheating with a computer, but yes, you hear all manner of >accusations about every category of player. There are some people who assume >that everything over 2700 blitz is a computer. > I was the person who detected that IM cheating.. it was about 2 yrs ago on ICC. I'm sure you recall his name as I do. >On the other hand, some guy who's played less than fifty games, all with big >increment, and quite a few standard games, many (wins) against computers, and >some of the rest against humans rated around 2200, who has massively more won >games than lost games, who has a rating in excess of 2450, who tends to move in >4-6 seconds in the opening (which tends to last until about move 12-20), who >tends to use roughly similar times per move during the middlegame, with a slight >tendency toward using less time as the game goes on, will be a computer almost >every time, and will probably be a pretty weird guy if it's not a computer. > >bruce
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