Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:27:52 10/17/01
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On October 17, 2001 at 13:15:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 17, 2001 at 11:17:35, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On October 16, 2001 at 22:15:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Not that I can think of. Catching cheating as it goes on is _very_ difficult. >>>If not impossible. It all depends on the "skill" of the "cheater". >>> >>>This was a doomed experiment from the get-go. You only have to play on the >>>chess servers to see what I mean... >> >> >>Bob, I've played dozens of games on ICC and other servers, and not a single time >>did I feel I was facing a computer (nor did I use one myself, of course). After >>each set of games, I looked at all the games with the help of Fritz 6, and it >>showed plenty of inaccurate or weak moves by both sides. >> >>I was just getting optimistic about this whole topic ... now you want to burst >>my bubble? > > >What is your ICC rating? I have played quite a few games myself, and I have >run into a computer a few times. But with "crafty" it is very common. On >FICS and chess.net you really can't trust anybody unless you _know_ them. >Cheating is rampant. On ICC you can't trust most. > >Sad but true. The higher your ICC rating, the more likely it is you will >run into a computer. If you play 1600-1800 players, it isn't too common, >although it does happen. But if you play 2400-up players, your chances are >very good of running into a stealth computer. My ICC rating was somewhere around 2040. I used ICC for a month, free, but now I use Fritz 7's on-line thing, where I'm currently rated 19xx. (After 2 games I was over 2240, but then blundered many, many games away until I was under 1700!) What I'd really like is a computer to intercept all my moves and only stop/alert me if I make a horrible blunder, otherwise pass my move through. I hate losing a good game due to a blunder, which I often do (I've hung several Queens and fallen into 2 mates-in-1 lately), but I know that this would still be cheating.
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