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Subject: Re: Computer cheating, another perspective?

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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