Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 10:31:30 08/29/02
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On August 29, 2002 at 12:35:39, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Hello, I see at the ICC website they say they have vigorous mechanisms in place >to detect cheating (meaning using computers to play one's game). Does anybody >out there play at ICC and what are some of the ways they use to detect cheaters? >It seems to me that you would never "really" know if you were playing against a >computer. >Thanks, >Gerald Hi, A friend of mine plays at the KasparovChess.com website and he tried running a chess program while playing against someone on the web. The time controls for his opponent becomes intermittent sometimes in the opponents favor (like it stops for a few seconds then runs for a few seconds) which essentially increases his opponent's thinking time. Also on another occasion this friend said his computer hang-up twice because a program run in the background (like his chess software) causes the Kasparov server to "act up" in his own words. I think they have other ways to detect if one were playing a computer against humans. I do not know, though, if 2 computers are playing each other presuming to be humans on that server, what anomalies would come up. Sandi
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