Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:48:50 10/17/01
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On October 17, 2001 at 13:16:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 17, 2001 at 09:51:16, stuart taylor wrote: > >>With my "old" Hiarcs 7.0. It is very easy to keep the computer running on >>analysis (I mean, if it is independant of one connected to the internet etc.) >>and to pick one of the 3 best moves which appear on the continuous analysis >>display. >>And in special cases when the player desperately wants to play something else, >>to quickly play it out on the screen to make sure it is reasonable etc. >>Even if it is a speculative looking sacrifice which makes the evaluation drop >>greatly, if it quickly starts to recover at every ply, you can be quite >>confident that it is a very intelligent sacrifice. >> In other words, you could play quite "origionally" even at as little as 5 min. >>per game with quite a stable computer backing. >>That is with Hiarcs 7.0. I'm sure with others too, even better. >>S.Taylor > > >This is not an issue. Trying to detect cheating by monitoring the computer >won't work, because most use a second computer. Many GUIs now detect "task >switching" and notify your opponent if you shift focus from the GUI window to >another window. The solution is a second machine. Now you are left with only >the "game" as evidence. And that makes the detection process much more >difficult and time-consuming. Wouldn't it slow a person way down to switch back & forth to another computer (of course, I have a single monitor which is switched between my computers, so it would take a REALLY long time)?
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