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

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 19:50:15 07/26/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 17:45:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>...
>
>To someone who thinks they were cheated by this guy, the transcript you provide
>might be interesting, but as conversation it is really quite dull. Actually, I
>wasn't able to read the whole thing so if there was significant turn in the
>conversation, my attention span didn't last long enough to catch it.
>
>If I thought someone was cheating me, I would just noplay and censor them and
>move on. It's isn't worth more trouble than that. Trying to spread the word
>about the jerk is useless, since they will simply acquire a new user id and
>start anew.

so I am not crazy? he was dodging the questions?



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