Author: Steve B
Date: 05:35:02 01/17/05
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>As some of you know, about 1 yr ago I put out a review of all the most popular >chess servers one can use. > >Well I just updated it, and it can be found at: Hi Peter thanks for your concise,easily readable and well written review my only point of contention is that you seem to minimize or "Gloss" over the cheating incidences on the servers from a reading of your review one would come away with the idea that only on Fics is Cheating out of control,while on the ICC the adms.are making a valient effort to curb it and on Playchess ,there is no mention of cheating the ugly truth of it is that cheating is rampant on all three servers so much so that it makes no sense for a normal player to even care about a rating,because the rating pool is staistically corrupted do to the high cheating incidence ratios of course for computer matches or to watch GM's and IM's play,or to play unrated casual games the servers are great but for a regular player to compete for a rating it just dosent make sense Dr Robert Pawlak (a well respected writer and member of the US CHESS community) wrote about this last year in an issue of CHESS LIFE(mag of the USCF) and he also posted several messages here where he gave his opinion as to the cheating incidence ratios on the various servers they ranged between 15-20% across all servers with the highest being over 40% (for Standard games) on one server again i thank you for your review and i look forward to your review of the various Gui's Best Regards Steve
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