Author: Chessfun
Date: 06:06:50 03/21/00
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On March 21, 2000 at 04:40:40, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >It is not clear to me why Xie Jun did not agree to play via telephone. > >She says it was to avoid the possibility of cheating on DJ's side. > What she in fact wrote is: "It is also obvious that I could not agree to play by telephone: the contract stated very clearly that "all games will be played through the Internet". Thanks. >But clearly someone was making DJ's moves manually over the Internet. How else >could this Kd8 mouse slip have happened? So what was to prevent the person from >cheating? Even if a human wasn't making the moves manually, cheating is >obviously possible. > >I suppose it's possible that Xie Jun does not understand the technology involved >at all, and does not know any better. > >But I think it's more likely that she was just trying to be difficult. > >Other than this detail, her story sounds very compelling. > >-Tom
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