Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:04:45 01/08/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 18:54:12, David Dory wrote: >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). Here's an interesting twist: what if the cheating player was deaf and unable to hear or speak? How would this affect his lack of chess insight? >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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