Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:41:11 01/21/99
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On January 20, 1999 at 18:00:14, Jeff Anderson wrote: >On January 20, 1999 at 00:57:50, Will Singleton wrote: > >Not only is this post clearly inappropriate, but it does not even have much to >do with the original post. >On ICC I often see this same mentality. In channel 64, the computer chess >programming channel, with frequency, someone with a crafty account will blindly >accuse that one was cheating just because he managed to play a decent game >against their crafty clone. If you are under 1800 and make it to an endgame >against someones crafty clone, you better be prepared to be the subject of a >witchhunt. People will shout to all in 64, look at this cheater playing against >my program, and will proceed to encourage everyone to message speedtrap and >'bust this lamer.' And this is before the game is even over!! >Jeff > I'm on ICC quite a bit, and this is _not_ common. There are _several_ of us that are quite accurate in our 'witch hunting'. I can say that _I_ have _never_ accused someone after one game. Or even after two games. And never after simply _watching_ a game. I do a bunch of offline analysis to convince myself. _then_ I pass my info on to speedtrap and let them look at the games as well. If you don't think cheating on the server is rampant, you are very naive. It is a _huge_ problem. It is keeping several people busy full-time just keeping up with (and labeling) the (C)heaters. Occasionally someone does spark off a debate in channel 64, but if you are around when most of us 'regulars' are around, you would know that we generally take the same position there as we do here... watching a game is not enough to accuse someone. And 'we' generally don't do that... >>Do you ask because you have some suspicions about a particular account? >> >>I have identified a cheater, Godizila, who has an interesting method. He will >>play various medium-strength computers and humans, usually building up a winning >>position before losing on time or allowing a repetition. He always plays a >>perfect opening, never makes a tactical mistake, takes about the same amount of >>time for each move, and doesn't move immediately. If he gets low on time, >>however, he starts playing faster, and makes obvious mistakes. Definitely using >>a computer, and making the moves manually. >> >>Will
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