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Subject: Re: Ooops. Forgot one...

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 14:05:40 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 16:51:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 16:46:27, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>I just wondered if there was a specific situation that occurred that caused >this rule to be implemented.  Like who was involved and what happened.
>
>There were several accusations in the past tournament about
>people overruling moves from their engines. At least one of the
>people involved later admitted he manually interfered with the
>time usage of the engine.
>
>PS. I don't think the current rules actually prevent this
>either, which is why I'm not so hot about online tournaments.
>

Hi GCP,

I agree that it's still possible to interfere, but it just makes it more
difficult, which is the point, IMHO. Perhaps as a professional it's not
"watertight" enough, but for the amateurs I think it is sufficient.

Andrew



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