Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 01:57:25 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 04:38:11, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>>And anything prevents you from doing the same in CCT? Analyze the game on >>>another computer, using other programs, have a bunch of friends analyzing with >>>you, and when you find a better move, overrule your program... >> >> Not easily if you're automated and thinking is posted and log files can be >>analyzed. It's not impossible, but it's hard. > >Unfortunately, it is extremely easy. Think of the following: Every 1 second your >program checks the file command.txt, and if it finds a move there it chooses it >and creates a PV for it (very easy, in the root force that move). Thus, you >overruled the program, and the PV is as realistic as before. Implementing it >will take less than one hour to make it totally undetectable. > >I hope nobody implements this suggestion, but it just shows how simple and easy >it is to cheat online. > ICGA allows remote connections where this is also possible. -S.
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