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Subject: Re: Possible computer cheater? Or just very lucky in two games?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:30:46 11/20/00

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On November 20, 2000 at 19:03:48, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>Btw, do you check comp-comp games for illegal human intervention?

I don't particularly care what people do these days.  I just get flabbergasted
when I hear people say that it's OK to fire up the ol' comp when you play a comp
account, because that's only fair since otherwise it would beat you.  Of course
it's going to beat you, it's rated hundreds of points higher.  Or when people
say that they have a right to abuse any computer, since the computers are part
of what they are paying for when they join ICC.  This makes as much sense has
them saying that they have the right to abuse any human player, since they've
paid their fifty bucks.

It's very hard to tell if someone is cheating with a human in computer vs
computer games, but if I knew it was happening, I would be bothered.  If I'm
going to play a computer, I should be playing a computer.

I watched an exhibition game between a computer and an IM, and the operator of
the computer started moving very quickly when the human ran low on time, even
though he had a lot himself.  I thought this was a case of human intervention,
and it bothered me at the time.

Odd things have happened at other times, as well.

bruce


bruce



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