Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:57:28 03/11/03
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On March 11, 2003 at 18:39:41, John Jack wrote: >Chessbase has software installed in there computers That can detect software >being used on the playchess web site (Main Playing Hall) How is this possible. >If you buy there software we tend to play like computers.(Learn) They can't know "for sure", but they can get a pretty good idea. Probably the first thing they check is how long the player took between moves. If the player always takes 15 seconds for each move, then there's a good chance that it's a computer, because even beginning chess players know that some moves are forced and they play them quickly. They probably don't look at every single player. They probably look at people who have a high rating and people who were accused of cheating, then look at their time per move in each game, and see if they make any typical computer moves, like out of place king protecting moves like Kh1. They might also compare the moves played with popular chess engines. They could automate this of course, and it wouldn't take much human involvement. Also, if you are using their software to connect, they can add in whatever they want to that software. It is not very hard to add in some code to check what other programs are running on a computer. If they find a program called Fritz running on your computer, you probably get flagged and they look into it, look at your rating, your games, etc. If they find another program called Fritz running on your computer, and you're rated 1000, they probably aren't going to give you the boot. There are probably even more sophisticated ways. Maybe someone can add more.
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