Author: B FINKLER
Date: 21:55:12 11/01/03
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Mr Lieske thinks he is a "compcheat hunter". He used to do the same at Kasparovchess.com. He became a sysop at playchess.com in the last week or so. I would suggest talking with another sysop and explain your troubles with Mr Lieske. On November 01, 2003 at 18:14:39, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >Hi CCC members, > >I suppose that quite a few of you play on the playchess.com server. I have >played there lots of games from time to time: more than 2,500 games at blitz >levels, about 1,400 games at lightning levels and over 1,000 games with my chess >programs, mainly testing opening books. Of course, I registered quoting my >Fritz 8 licence number and had no problems till a couple of days ago when or so >when I noticed that I had been downranked to Pawn meaning that I could not take >part in any tourneys and could not even let my engines play in tournaments. >Tonight (it is Friday night here in Europe) I had plenty of time to kill so I >decided to clear things up with the Sysop on playchess.com (ChessBase owned ICS) >-- named Holger Lieske. I asked him what could be the matter with my sudden >demotion and he said that I should put down my real name (which had been there >all the time), the name of my country (which had also been there all the time, >regardless of the change of the name of the country (it is now called Serbia & >Montenegro instead of Yugoslavia, but the flag is still the same), as well as my >email address. The email address had not been required at the time I first >started playing on playchess.com. Anyway, I did comply with the request and >asked Mr. Lieske when I would be promoted to the rank of Knight thus reclaiming >my right to play in tournaments and the like. (BTW, I had been a Rook for quite >a while before). > >I got the answer that he, the Sysop, had to consult a colleague and that I would >get the answer soon. But I never got the reply, because after a little while >Mr. Lieske said that his colleague was quite tied up and that I should wait. He >also said that I had provided him with everything needed... Mr. Lieske was even >more informative saying that I might have been deprived of my full rights for >having been abusive, having used racist language, having been reported by >someone for my improper conduct on the server, etc. After I pointed out that >the personal data that have boxes describing manners, fairness and similar did >not list any of the mentioned, he clammed up. > >I said that I would provide him with my Fritz license number again if needed, >and that he might look up some URLs where he would be able to easily check on my >real identity and find my photos, find out who I was, and I also stated that my >University had a file on me on its web pages. I offered to talk to him about >any problems regarding my identity. > >He said that I should sign off and come back later on. I promised that I >would, and I will. Meanwhile, as I had a very strong gut feeling that there was >something strange, I hastened to post here in time. > >My slightly paranoid thinking goes like this: did this strange behaviour on the >playchess.com merely coincide with my newly edited personal notes (sort of >fingernotes, just like on FICS or ICC) saying that I was on the Ruffian/Arena >team that had won the Dutch Open and that I was Ruffian's book author? I hope >that the new notes did not mean a thing and that my suspicion is utterly >unfounded.... > >Will keep you posted. Sorry for the outburst but I feel very frustrated, after >having spent almost a whole hour on playchess, sitting like a dunce there. > >Djordje > >PS: I have waited to find out the final reply. And, I can tell you that Mr. >Lieske, the ChessBase Sysop told me: we have grounds to believe that you played >with computer assistance... > >I have to say this in public: I have _never_ ever played with any computer >assistance. I have played lots of games on different servers with lots of >strong players but never using a program. No fun there. This was just >incredibly foul, stupid and groundless. When I asked Mr. Lieske about when and >against whom I had played using a computer program (how is it possible in games >at 3 minutes?), he said that he did not know. > >So much for ChessBase.
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