Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 02:24:18 11/21/00

Go up one level in this thread


On November 21, 2000 at 00:13:35, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I am hardly just an operator. I am a serious beta tester. I do care what happens
>in the games.

There's no mention of the games themselves in your, except the vague statement
that Tiger was never really ahead. You focused on the results and the rating of
your opponent, nothing more. The games were posted the day they were played,
which hardly suggests a thorough and proper look.

Not having the decency to make sure that the name doesn't appear anywhere in the
text and failing to substantiate your suspicion with even a single move or
position, makes you actions look retaliatory instead of inquisitive from my
perspective.

Calling yourself a serious beta tester doesn't entitle you to special rights
when it comes to unbased accusations or make you more important than any other
ordinary operator. And unless you're betatesting Rebel 12 already the title
sounds dubious as well.

>I am not a grumpy operator. I do not care whether is wins or losses. Really I
>don't.

Judging from your review and several references here to how well Tiger plays on
ICS makes me doubt the truth in this statement.

> I just hate, and I mean hate means cheated against.

Who doesn't. But that doesn't mean that you can report or aim your suspicion on
someone just because he beats your account and happens to have a low rating.
There are ethics to abide by for those who feel cheated as well.

>If you don't mind, let's play poker, I will take all the aces, and you play with
>all the 3's. Let's see if you care that I am cheating.

That's a nonsensical comparison. The program doesn't distinguish between (c) or
no (c) and change behaviour accordingly. You would, but you're not sitting at
the table.

>I went through the proper way. I only asked here for input, as MOST of the
>people here use common sense when evaluating these type problems. I was asking
>for advice. I can see yours isn't worth shit.

If you were looking for an easy excuse to report someone then you're right, my
advice really isn't worth shit from your point of view. And since you also
jumped to conclusions in the previous cheater thread, when Bob gave a vague
opinion about the actions of the culprite, I'm not too worried about it.

Mogens.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.