Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 16:29:32 03/11/03
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On March 11, 2003 at 18:57:28, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. A very simple idea: If immediately after each move of your opponent you are leaving the current window, then return to it and quickly play the move, you are almost certainly cheating :-)
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