Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 20:52:43 10/22/98
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On October 21, 1998 at 07:28:33, Amir Ban wrote: >On October 20, 1998 at 16:34:52, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>On October 20, 1998 at 05:44:47, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>On October 19, 1998 at 23:31:18, Komputer Korner wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>If this is the case you would have to accept that each program's clock counts as >>>>the official time, the same as the Hergott-Hiarcs match. Does the SSDF do this? >>>>-- >>> >>>Yes. The programs count time for themselves. >>> >>>During the height of the autoplayer cheating debate, when some people tried to >>>think up complicated auto232 tricks leading to marginal and obscure advantages, >>>I pointed out that the simplest way to cheat is to lie about your clock, and >>>this doesn't even involve the autoplayer. >>> >>>Amir >> >>This possible huge clock time hole for potential cheating, together with the >>draw controversy and the abrupt game terminations are the time bombs of SSDF >>integrity. These along with SSDF's refusal to disallow secret autoplayers may >>ultimately bring the SSDF down. >>-- > >I was aiming at an opposite conclusion. I don't think any cheating took place >this way or any other way. I was pointing out that those who said cheating took >place were thinking up scenarios that were unnecessarily complicated, when >cheating has always been possible through very elementary means. > >Whether this reflects on SSDF integrity I don't know. I think they based their >reputation on their methodology, not on guarding against fraud, something which >they probably did not even think about until recently. > >Remember also that the real news this year is not that programs started to cheat >(unproven and almost certainly false), but that people started saying they do. > >Amir Remember I am not the one who is accusing anyone of cheating. I am only saying that the potential is there. -- Komputer Korner
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