Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:43:51 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 19:30:46, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 JKoss the person in question has responded at the top of the thread. One minute he is in gaming dropping material vs 1500 players, next he produces a gem of a game vs a 2500 rated computer. 2500 on FICS is almost as good as 3000 on ICC.
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