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Subject: Re: How does the Internet Chess Club "detect" cheaters (i.e., computer use)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:11:22 08/31/02

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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


I would think it would be important that they (try to) keep their methods
secret.  As soon as everybody knows how ICC detects computers, the way to defeat
their method will become widespread.



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