Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 14:54:09 09/15/98
I asked GM Drazen Marovic if he was playing a match or game against another GM who was recieving moves somehow secretly from a computer if he would suspect he was being cheated. He said that he would not have "an inkling of a clue" that they were using a computer. He gave these reasons 1.I wouldn't think it firstly because i couldn't imagine another GM would use one in that way(in other words cheat). 2.If it happened in a tournament i certainly couldn't tell based on 1 game, besides the fact that i would not even have it in my mind as a possibility that i was being cheated, so it would never even be considered as a possibility. 3.If it happened in a match which is usually only 6 games, again first i wouldn't even be considering it as a possibility another GM would be cheating, and also that is a very small number of games. 4.If you are suggesting that i might know because computers make bad moves. Well usually the bad moves that are made are because when GMs play against computers we often use anti-computer chess and attempt to lead them into positions that are hard for them to deal with. Since i wouldn't know it was a computer i would be playing no such strategy and the likelyhood of an outright blunder is considerably lessened. 5.Also i might point out humans make bad moves quite frequently even at the GM level, so if i saw a positional blunder, i wouldn't be thinking my opponent is playing like a computer, but rather "Yes!! I have a win!!" So ultimately the likelyhood that i would think another opponent especially a GM was using a computer against me in a tournament or a match is almost zero.
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