Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:32:12 09/06/00
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On September 06, 2000 at 14:03:57, Ed Schröder wrote: >On September 06, 2000 at 13:54:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 06, 2000 at 04:12:01, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>> >>>To make Internet tournaments trustworthy you need rules. >>> >>>Ed >> >> >>OK. we have a rule. You can't cheat. >> >>How does that fix anything? The rules aren't the problem. The problem is >>that the rules are unenforcable. Even if we are all gathered in the same >>room. The only way to prevent cheating there is for me to operate _your_ >>program and you to operate mine. And even that is not a guarantee that I >>don't have some sort of IR or RF access to my machine that you can't detect, >>to tell it when to move now or search longer... >> >>If a rule can't be enforced, it isn't much use... >> >>So it becomes a matter of trusting your opponent and having a good time... > >In theory you are right. Let's see how it will work in practice. Let's >for example count the commercial entries :) > >Ed In the ICCT? Last time Alex operated Nimzo. We had a shredder. No Rebel or Tiger. I don't remember about fritz. Junior was there. If I wanted to cheat, I could do so at the next ICCT or at the next WMCCC. No way to stop it.
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