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Subject: Re: An Incident on Playchess.com

Author: Steve B

Date: 07:09:16 11/13/04

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>One of his parting statements was "I only care about FAIR play."  Gimme a
>break......  How can Playchess engage as sysop like this?

dosent surprise me in the least
i was a paying Member of ICC 3 years ago
back then (before i realized how  rampant the cheating was) i cared about my
rating

one of the final straws that broke the Camels back for me was i was actually
cheated by an Administrator
it was a rated Blitz game and the Adm was exhibiting all of the usual signs that
he was using a prog(nano second replies in very complicated tactical position,he
mated me almost instantaneously with the release of my move..etcetc)

when i expressed surprise that he was using a prog,he shot back that i better be
careful beofre accusing him because he could get me tossed very easily
he neither denied or confirmed my accusuation

it wasnt long after that ,that i started to play as a guest only and only
unrated games
and to this day that is the only way i will play

there really is no reason to play rated games on any chess server
the ratings pool is corrupted with the cheaters which renders all rating's
statistically invalid

Best
Steve






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