Author: chandler yergin
Date: 00:52:07 11/14/04
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On November 13, 2004 at 11:26:57, Jonas Bylund wrote: >On November 13, 2004 at 09:00:40, David H. McClain wrote: > >>I was playing a 3 0 game on Playchess.com a few days ago, and the operator >>happened to be one of their sysops. With 12 seconds left in the game, his >>program refused to respond. I made a valid attempt to abort/adjourn and this >>was fruitless as usual, and the game ended. >> >>When he reconnected, I get a message "Thanks for locking up my machine! I was >>doing ok until I played you." Say what? A series of chat messages went back >>and forth, and I told him "Like I waved a magic wand from 3,000 miles away and >>locked your machine up?" >> >>I continued the chat and told him "If Playchess would fix the useless >>adjourn/abort feature, this wouldn't happen." To which his reply was "Are you >>getting smart with me?" >> >>One of his parting statements was "I only care about FAIR play." Gimme a >>break...... How can Playchess engage as sysop like this? > >I have had a couple of similar experiences with their sysops and never bother to >use playchess anymore. I got a message purporting to be from AOL, that said; "Your Computer is Locked, and you must enter Password to unlock" It was a Pop-up, looked very authentic, this maybe what happened on Playchess. I suspected a Hacker, ignored the Popup, found my Computer was not locked after all. Beware!
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