Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:00:25 10/18/01
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On October 17, 2001 at 17:54:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 17, 2001 at 13:48:50, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>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)? > > >Not particularly. IE when I first started testing Crafty on what was (back >then) FICS (now ICC) I didn't know anything at all about (C) accounts as there >was no notification about using computers or anything. Before I got my xboard >stuff up and going, I would sit at home and use my laptop to connect and relay >moves to FICS from my home computer. Bruce and others did this too, and we all >found that you can be fairly efficient at doing it. If you play with an >increment, it is a snap. The way to really hurt cheaters is to play with no >increment and just run 'em out of time... :) > >Of course, _most_ won't play 0 inc games for that reason... So _that's_ why I get so few opponents with my usual 5-second increment requests. I thought it was because they all had under-age-30 brains, whereas I need the extra time, having an over-age-40 brain!
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