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Subject: Re: computer cheating print article,,,in a word....

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 17:51:15 04/03/04

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On April 03, 2004 at 20:03:51, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 03, 2004 at 16:21:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Does it mean that you planned to play 1...e5 against every move including 1.d4?
>
>
>No. I guess what I am doing is not exactly what Steve was talking about. I am
>doing half pre-move, or 'pre-'.
>
>What I do is click on the e7 pawn, then put my mouse over e5. If my opponent
>plays 1. e4, then I just click once and 1...e5 is played (almost) instantly. You
>could also accomplish the same thing by clicking on the e7 pawn and dragging it
>to the e5 square and hold it over the e5 square until it is your turn. If your
>opponent plays 1. e4, then you just let go of the mouse button and it makes the
>move 1...e5.
>
>If he plays another move, like 1. d4 or 1. Nf3, then I make another move
>normally.
>
>
>>I think that the server should not allow pre-move.
>>I think that it is simple to do it if the server ignores every information that
>>you send when it is the move of the opponent except resigning the game.
>>
>>I do not think that it is cheating but it is not the game that I play when I
>>play over the board game.
>
>
>I don't think the server can control it. The GUI could work like this: I make my
>move, the GUI saves my move and waits until it is my turn, then it immediately
>sends the move. After playing around with Winboard, I believe this is how
>Winboard works. So the server never knows that you made your move before it was
>your turn.

As soon as the "cheater cops" at ICC hear about this they will modify Blitzin to
detect this premove activity.  : (

Bob D.


>I think all the server can do is make all moves subtract at least 0.1
>seconds from the clock (or some other small amount of time). That is probably a
>good idea IMO.



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