Author: David Dory
Date: 15:54:12 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 ? Do you think that we can win many tournaments ? Do you think that >his opponents will begin to suspect something ? Do you think that this kind of >trickery could last a long time ? And finally perhaps this situation really >exist and nobody knows , is it possible ? This scenario has been tried in Las Vegas Casino's with various card games, especially blackjack. Yes, he got away with it for a while. Yes, he was caught. (He was using specialty glasses that had tiny indicator lights embedded into the frames so only someone wearing the glasses would see the lights indicating how he should bet. The problem is, life is unexpected and experience builds up cumulative. If the new GM never has a good insight into a chess question off the cuff, and his winning games always mimic how a chess program would respond. (And even though he throws a few games and a few moves he still must be winning most of his games by using the computer's winning moves). Short version - doomed to failure. Had it been perfected 30 years ago and used, the novelty might have let it run for a long time. But not today. Dave
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