Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:20:33 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 20:07:44, Michael Ginat wrote: >On January 26, 1999 at 17:31:30, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On January 26, 1999 at 16:41:37, Michael Ginat wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>I doubt if he or she would be that keen on trying their luck - not for the kind >>>of prizes you can win in chess - >> >>I agree with this. >> >>>not only that, in chess a computer chess cheat >>>would stick out like a sore thumb. >> >>I don't know. I think I could increase my rating by 200 points a year until it >>got to the 2400 level or so and still win many large prizes on the way. In the >>meantime, the programs would get better and play more human-like chess. If I >>also studied hard at the same time, I could pretend to be ones of those stuck up >>masters (I do not get the impression that you are one of those Michael, but let >>me know if I am wrong) who doesn't give his opinions on anyone else's games or >>analyzes one of his own games after playing it. >> >>KarinsDad :) :) >> >>>regards. >>>Michael >Hi Karinsdad, >Thanks for your complements - I hope to defend my title this year btw. I guess >you're right about someone being able to avoid post mortems etc., especially if >I think about an up and coming junior (pardon the pun Junior 5 !). By the way I >had an aquaintence in Australia who made a tidy sum by getting a low rating and >then cleaning up many prizes on the US circuit. That kind of behaviour disgusts >me.. >regards, >Michael Ginat I had a good friend that did this in the early 70's.. we played a lot of chess (he was really a 1900 player, but his rating was always below 1800 when tournament time came around (this was before the anti-sandbagging rating system was in force showing your 'best'...) Used to really piss me too, because we would play in a tournament (one with no prizes) and he would intentionally drop a piece or something when playing me or others, yet we played pretty evenly most of the time. But these events were rated tournaments (entry fee was only the rating fee). And he would enter a big tournament in New Orleans or whatever and just clean out the under-1800 class prize... There are those kinds of folks...
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