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Subject: Re: Hypothetical situation

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 03:43:01 01/09/02

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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 ?

That depends on the age of the player. If she/he is young, something like
between 17 and 20 years old, nobody will suspect based only on the results. If
the player is 40 years old, that is instantly suspicious.
José.

>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 ?
>
>Sorry for my bad english.
>
>Pierre



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