Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:42:36 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 07:44:58, Steve B wrote: >cheating and foul play has been the mainstay of rating the old computers from >the begginning A large portion of the moral hazard was due to the decision, for some events, to allow more than one entrant model from a single manufacturer. That's almost like running a blackjack or poker game with some of the players acting in secret collaboration. >the CRA(COMPUTER Rating Agency)an arm of the USCF was a joke from the getgo I think the CRA was a well intentioned idea, but was perverted by the USCF greed for advertisers' money. When the USCF allowed eight machines from the same manufacturer to compete at the same time in a single event, it helped lead to the antipathy by many human players against any form of computer participation. I am sure of this, because during that time I was hearing plenty of supporting comments from humans as I was entering my old program Spector in USCF events. It was in 1967 that Richard Greenblatt started the tradition of entering non-commercial programs in otherwise human events. It was a fine and useful tradition until the USCF helped kill it with the CRA. >even the WMCCC was riddled with this sort of thing by all of the various >companies Yes. Titles and ratings good for a whole year were determined solely by a half dozen (or fewer) rounds. >the USCF and Fidelity were hardly the only ones cheating like this But the USCF is still with us, although perhaps not for too much longer. For many US players, they are of little help except for providing ratings. Maybe it is only a matter of time before a new group steps in with their own OTB rating service and provides such at a small fraction of the cost of USCF membership. >CCR however would always report the shannanigns > >perhaps Steve Schwartz can jump in here?? Hopefully, as he was the author of the aforementioned article.
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