Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 15:58:31 11/10/03
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There is a real problem of authentication in 'Internet tournaments'. First, either contestants renounce the possibility of legal recourse (if they are accused of cheating and it happens to be false), or the organisers will have to be very certain of their grounds in disqualifying people. I wonder which - if either - applied here. Secondly, to suggest that a human is using FRITZ (or similar), just because they have the temerity to play a sequence of moves that FRITZ plays, is dubious to say the least. It may be that all the moves are obvious, as others have stated. What would BRUTUS, JUNIOR, SHREDDER, TIGER etc say in the same circumstances? This is not the first time Chessbase have published their suspicions of 'FRITZINESS' - although, to be fair, the first case seemed rather more cut-and-dried. I wonder whether their arguments are FRITZomorphic or FRITZ-centric, apart from in the obvious sense that FRITZ is being used as the benchmark. To give pause for thought, we have in the UK had the tragic case of a young mother who lost three babies in sudden deaths. Previous probability-arguments based on 'random effects' which would have led to a conviction for murder were blown away when a likely underlying genetic cause was revealed. Unless these accusations are well and publicly justified, I think computer-chess machines, Internet tournaments and those who make these accusations are quickly going to attract a reputation they do not want. g
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