Author: Peter Berger
Date: 14:06:09 11/09/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 16:59:34, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 09, 2002 at 16:45:26, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>I played CCT4 manually with IsiChess. My conclusion: A seriuos online tournament >>requires automatic play. Otherwise there might be always some suspicion obout >>some kind of cheating. Most likely forcing moves or delaying entering moves, in >>case of ponder hits in critical situations. > >The rules about hardware basically say, "We can't possibly control that, so >there's no rule." There always was one - you were supposed to play with the fastest one possible, so this is no problem at all. If the cct's should be able to produce a real alternative for live tournaments instant logging ( kibitz for example) and automated play are required. Of course this doesn't make cheating completely impossible but reasonably difficult. This is another situation that we have zero control over. If >I'm going to cheat, automatic play does absolutely nothing to prevent that. I >can add in a few system calls to test key states, pop open windows to say, "I am >going to play 1. e4. Is this ok?" or "Keep searching?" or whatever. > >As I see it, this rule would only limit the people who can play. Also, I see it >as a significant bonus to someone who uses automatic play, because they will be >less likely to get into a time crunch or fat finger a wrong move in, or >whatever. > >Russell
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