Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:00:56 11/21/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 01:04:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 20, 2000 at 21:57:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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 >> >> >>This might or might not be a case of operator intervention. IE Mike Byrne >>wrote a time allocation module for Crafty that would do just this. As the >>opponent got lower on time, Crafty would move faster to keep the pressure >>up, by not giving the opponent long 'thinks' on crafty's clock. >> >>I fiddle with it every now and then but in general, I don't use it very much >>since I don't like the 'concept' particularly. > >It was some guy running WChess manually. He did a lot of weird things and >eventually got banned. I can't remember what he did, but I remember being >really mad at the time. > >bruce I remember that case... vaguely... I never understood exactly what he did, but a lot of people were really PO'd at him for doing it. :)
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