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Subject: Now that question was cool!

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 10:22:16 01/26/99

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On January 26, 1999 at 01:36:38, Howard Exner wrote:

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>>
>>Shawn's hypothetical, what if a person used a computer so as to make
>>the human opponents think that they were playing a
>
>oops meant human here not "computer"
>
>computer, has strangely
>>turned into a real event, as your initial thread has reminded us. Most humans
>>definitely adjust their style when they play against a computer. What was
>>the eventual performance rating of the cheater? Maybe the cheater will claim
>>he was abducted by Fritz in a kind of "Outer Limits" theme :)
>>

I liked your other question better. What if a GM operated the computer and could
force it to make certain moves (and thereby create bogus logs) and at the same
time, see it's analysis (i.e. cheat) in a human/computer event (or even a
computer/computer event where he could prevent certain types of moves)? His
opponent would:

1) Think he is playing a computer (usually only if human, but some computers are
designed to play different against computers or humans these days), so would
modify accordingly, and
2) The GM would have the advantage of the computer analysis.

An obscure third world GM may be able to get away with it (disguised) for a few
tournaments. Due to the rarity of it, that would shock the chess world more than
what happened if discovered.

Isn't speculating fun? :)

KarinsDad

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