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Subject: Re: Cheating in playchess

Author: Darrel Briley

Date: 19:34:45 04/26/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 16:05:01, Roman Hartmann wrote:

>On April 26, 2005 at 15:44:02, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>ChessBase is ok. But I am sure: not only the amateurs does Cheating make.
>>That does GMs to - that is only my opinion.
>
>Yes, I agree, some certainly do. I kibitzed once a few games of a WGM. She was
>participating in an event on a chess server. I'm not going to say on which
>server or which event neither will I mention the name of the player. But it was
>obvious that she was cheating in a few of the games. Quite a few of the other
>kibitzers who had an engine running got suspicious about it too. But the admins
>must have observed the cheating too as the admins solved the 'problem' behind
>the scenes without making it public.
>
>Roman

Last year in Dos Hermanas, there was more than one GM caught cheating...I don't
have a problem naming names...Julio Becerra, Alexandra Kosteniuk...those are two
that I know about, but there were others.  Apparently Kosteniuk's account logged
into the ICC server from several different geographic locations within minutes.
While Beccerra was heavily multi-tasking (which the Blitzin software picks up).

I don't know how this guy is cheating, and I'm not familiar with Playchess since
I play on ICC, but the first thing that occurs to me is the old trick whereby a
relatively untalented person can appear to play a very strong game of chess.
It's been used in corresponce matches as well as simuls.  The "player" simply
uses the moves from one game in the other.  The two strong players play one
another with the "trickster" relaying the moves.  Who knows?



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