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Subject: Re: How can chess players be so ignorant?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 17:17:09 07/26/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 16:43:13, Derek Paquette wrote:

>Ok, i'm a proud owner of some chessbase programs and I go on there a lot
>
>there is a user named DarkNolan,
>somethink he cheats, some don't.
>
>I for one think he cheats, so i was on there today just a moment ago 4:45 est
>monday.
>
>And this guy is playing obvious computer moves, in fact someone even analyzed
>one of his games and all his moves were DF8's first pick,
>
>but df8 has a personality , and you can change its style, or he can change
>programs etc etc, I need not explain all the different variations of play from
>different programs (you people aren't stupid)
>
>So I was very fed up with this man, and some others were aswell, so i asked
>NOlan if he'd agree to a chess quiz., he agreed.
>
>people started asking him questions about chess opening theory,
>
>as i predicted he dodged all the questions
>below is a transcript of the chat, after i asked him to do the quiz
>i wasn't on my best behaviour as i have seen this a hundred times on many
>servers, and the same damn people are having wet dreams over these super
>grandmasters that they THINK are on the site

Who cares... Why tell us something we don't already know.

Many people that play online chess cheat. Giving a quiz answers nothing about if
a person is cheating or not.
We know GM's and IM's and FM's have been found cheating online. So it is not
just weak players who are cheating.



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