Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:16:11 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 19:39:22, Pierre Chevalier wrote: >Many chess playing sites have ways to detect whether a player is >also running chess software on his computer. Are there any >products available to mask the software? Could such a masking >program be detected itself? >This is similar to olympic drug testing. Certain masking agents >are illegal themselves even if they do not enhance performance >because they could conceal drugs that do enhance perfromance. In the area of online 3D games they have similar problems. People hack the opengl drivers and make aimbots (you have perfect aim), wallhacks (you can see through walls), etc. There is software to detect them, but as soon as that software is released to the public, the hackers work on bypassing it. Then the software developers patch their program so it will work again, and the hackers hack it again, and round and round we go. It's been going on for many years, and it doesn't look like it's going to get better. ICC could implement code in Blitzin to detect all public chess engines, but then someone could hack that, and then ICC would fix it, and someone would hack it again, and on and on. What makes it even harder is that a person might not be running the chess program on the same computer, so you have to rely on style of play, which can work in some cases, but it can still be complicated and error prone.
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