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

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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