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Subject: Re: Cheating in playchess

Author: pavel

Date: 19:40:55 04/26/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 13:22:34, Pedro Gomes wrote:

>On April 26, 2005 at 12:22:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Meir paz claims in the israeli chess forum(for people who read hebrew see
>>http://www.chess-il.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=862&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)
>>that he has a method to play very well in the internet without the help of a
>>computer.
>>
>>For people who ask to play him in regular board he claims that the method does
>>not work on a regular board.
>>
>>He claims that nobody found his method including the people who are responsible
>>in playchess and that the method is developed and he hopes to get with it rating
>>of 2850.
>>
>>In the last tournament (yesterday 5+0 in room B) Meir paz scored 7/9 but I
>>noticed that in 2 games that he lost he did not play well and did stupid
>>mistakes.
>>
>>I said that it seems that the source that gives the moves to Meir paz stopped to
>>work.
>>
>>Meir paz admitted that there was a bug in the method and said that he is going
>>to work on fixing it.
>>
>>He said that the method stopped to work in the middle of the tournament and he
>>had to continue by himself but fortunately won the last 2 games by himself.
>>
>>Note that Meir paz was a player with rating near 1800 in blitz before using his
>>method but got rating above 2300.
>>
>>Note that Meir Paz in another thread did not deny a claim of another poster that
>>he found a bug in the program of playchess.
>>
>>I guess that another human simply plays for him(maybe Meir paz even caused him
>>by some way to believe that he plays against another player so maybe the human
>>is not quilty).
>>What is your opinion?
>>
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>I think, Uri, that this guy has written a program that reprsents a "bridge"
>between a chess engine from a different computer and the playchess´ software.
>Good hacker´s job in comunication between two softwares.
>
>PG


If this is the case, with enough games he should be able to increase his rating
much much more.

pavs



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