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Subject: Re: Peer-to-Peer Networks and Chess

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 23:35:24 09/20/00

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> The person who wrote such a program might even challenge Kasparov to
> a match, and you can imagine that maybe a hundred thousand people
> would volunteer their computers to participate in such a match.

It wouldn't take long before Kasparov's fans, or any opponents, would hook into
the network (and/or hack the program) and feed the phoney results of their
search sub-tree. It would be very difficult to control such problems. How would
you verify that 100,000 people are honest and reliable.



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