Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:51:36 01/07/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 17:03:03, Pierre Bourget wrote: >Imagine that a player with a good rating enter a tournament and in fact the >moves he makes came from a relatively unknow program running on very fast >hardware, the moves being relayed to him in a way that nobody can suspect >anything.The player to behave in a very normal way at the board ,not doing the >stupid mistake like announcing mate in 10 for example ,normally doing long >thinking for a difficult move ,etc. Imagine that he makes a normal progession >from tournaments to tournaments losing a game here and there voluntarily .Do you >think that it will be possible to detect that he is a cheater just looking at >the games ? Not for sure, but you can get a pretty good idea. >Do you think that we can win many tournaments ? Probably some. He'd be at or near GM level, as a guess. >Do you think that >his opponents will begin to suspect something ? For sure. On the very first tournament. Here is someone who comes out of nowhere who either suddenly appears at 2500 or jumps from 1800 to 2500 in the blink of an eye. Of course, heads will turn. >Do you think that this kind of >trickery could last a long time ? No. >And finally perhaps this situation really >exist and nobody knows , is it possible ? It has happened. >Sorry for my bad english. > >Pierre
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