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Subject: Re: What is Ruffian?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 02:49:16 07/26/02

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On July 26, 2002 at 05:42:42, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>The operator can be denied the computer account if the rumor is believed by the
>ICC admins. The information in the finger notes are required for computer
>accounts and must be accurate.
>
>Also, inaccaurate inforamtion pisses off many other computer account operators
>who may thereby decide to noplay ruffian.
>
>Inventing rumors is not harmless fun.

All good points. From stories I have heard second hand, ICC doesn't seem to need
a ton of proof for things like this. For example, on r.g.c.m there was a guy
complaining that ICC accused him of cheating because he had Fritz running int he
background analyzing another game. He said they made him either attach something
to his finger notes saying that he was caught cheating, or they would make his
account a computer account. The interesting part was that he was a weak player
rated (IIRC) around 1400, and he won something like 7 out of 12 games against
similar opposition. Apparently (if this story is true...who knows) ICC didn't
bother to run his games through a computer to see if they were computer level.

Of course, that story might just be a rumor :)

Russell



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