Author: Pete R.
Date: 19:51:29 07/13/00
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On July 13, 2000 at 22:44:46, Jon Dart wrote: >The chess server is generally a friendly place. You find a few people who >are unpleasant but that's true of most communities. > >You will sometimes get verbal abuse if an opponent is denied a draw, >feels the computer should have resigned sooner, is denied a rematch >and thinks s(he) should have one, or a lot of other reasons. I think >it's silly to complain to a machine-operated account but some people >do it anyway. If it really annoys you there is always +censor and >+noplay, but I personally try pretty hard not to use these. And if >it's a titled player we're talking about, I cut him or her a lot of >slack. > >Probably the most common abuse of computer accounts is humans who use >computers without registering as computer accounts. It's always hard to >be sure someone is doing this, but if a normally low-rated player has >a big winning streak against a normally strong program, you get >suspicious (at least I do :-)). There are other signs of computer use >as well but obvious outperformance is probably the most blatant. >Most computer account operators will noplay others they suspect of >cheating in this way and may complain to the server admins as well. > >Another common tactic is other computer accounts coming on to the server >at a low rating level and driving their own rating up by playing long >sequences of games against temporarily higher-rated but in fact lower- >strength programs. This is annoying because your account's rating is >sinking unnecessarily and because the other account is monopolizing >the use of yours. Some of the rating restrictions and # of games >guidelines you see are a response to this. > >You don't have to worry about any of this. You can decide personally >what behavior you want to prevent and whether it's important enough >to you to put in restrictions. > >--Jon Thanks for the comments. Is there any particular protocol regarding challenges between computers, or is it pretty much business as usual with seeks, and anyone putting out a seek is fair game?
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