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

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 00:23:02 07/27/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 22:50:15, Derek Paquette wrote:

>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?

I have no idea. Maybe he's a strong player that was yanking your cord because he
doesn't like being milked for a free chess lesson. I was speaking in general,
which should be clear since, I began the last paragraph with, "If I thought
someone was cheating me,..."



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