Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:31:31 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 18:10:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: >It is very easy to taken in by Xie jungs open letter where she tries to curry >sympathy with the chess loving masses-and try to drum up opinion against >junior.however one snetence gives the game away-her refusal to play by >telephone-i dont see the diff between playing over the net (which after all is >nothing but a telephone line) and playing over a conventional phone-in either >case it would be very difficult to verify cheating unless an unbiased moderator >was physically present at each site. > >Her refusal to play by phone when the internet connections were down completely >exposes her thoroughly > >rajen I know that I have been doing this a long time, while most here are relatively new to the field... but again, this is _old_ news. This nonsense has been going on since computers began to make a rumble in serious chess events. It isn't going to get better. And _any_ excuse is all that is needed for many players to say "not me"... Many strong players will play anything, any day. But there are some that won't. No point in being surprised at _anything_ that happens when one opponent is a computer...
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