Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:01:55 11/15/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 00:54:25, Peter Kappler wrote: > >I with you 100%, Bruce. > >Any decent player who takes 2 minutes to look at this game will realize that >there is nothing fishy going on. It's a completely routine win - White did >nothing special other than achieve a typical attacking position that centered >around a textbook tactical theme that any human can spot from a mile away. > >Bob, I'm sorry, but your argument about the mate in 7 being suspicious is just >ridiculous. You need to look at this game again. The guy could played the last >9 moves blindfolded. (By the way, I think he could have mated a move earlier by >playing 26. f6 instead of 26. Bxc4.) > This is already moot. I looked at it right after Bruce first responded, and agreed that the mate in 7 was trivial since it was mostly spite checks. I am still mildly concerned that a computer found no tactical errors by white, in a blitz game, which is very unusual, but not impossible. However, as I have said before, I don't label cheaters based on one game. I was really commenting on the statement that was suggesting that Tiger got planted deeply by a human that should not really be able to do that. And the first bit of analysis I did was suspicious. I didn't look at other games... when I cut the moves to analyze them, I omitted the pgn headers, and never thought about trying to find out who the guy was. I don't consider the issue of "he cheated" as the main point of what I wrote. The main point was that when a program loses to a low-rated player on a chess server, 99% of the time something is up. Maybe _not_ in this case, of course. But in general, it doesn't happen. Even the Elo formula agrees. >This whole debate is really absurd. It's just a textbook anti-computer attack >-- *exactly* the kind where an 1800 player can beat a computer. I have had 1800 players try this for a hundred games, with no success. Not that it couldn't happen. But it is so rare as to raise a red flag... > >--Peter
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