Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 18:13:30 03/11/99
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On March 11, 1999 at 18:14:07, Marc Plum wrote: >On March 10, 1999 at 17:44:42, Charles Milton Ling wrote: > >>New stuff appeared on the GambitSoft website recently. It appears that he >>played (or is indeed playing) another Open in Bad Wörishofen right now and - >>surrounded by more spectators than anybody else - lost two of his first three >>games, i.e. functioning at his usual 1925 level. > >Just for the sake of argument, assume for the moment that he didn't cheat. >Which of the following two improbable scenarios seems less unlikely? > >1. Unknown middle-aged amateur emerges from obscurity to win one major >tournament, but can never repeat this success. > >2. Unknown middle-aged amateur emerges from obscurity to win tournament after >tournament, performing at an IM or GM level consistently. > >I don't know that his failure to repeat his success can be seen as evidence of >cheating if that is what you meant. > >>Investigations have also been >>launched according to which he bought all sorts of electronic devices, adapted >>and appropriate to his nefarious purposes shortly before his "triumph". > >If this is true, that would be a much better way of establishing guilt. I would >much rather see hard physical evidence and eyewitness testimony than deductions >based on analysis of the games. > >>I am a >>great believer in the presumption of innocence, but credulity is strained >here. > >No argument there. Let's just see what other evidence emerges. If he is >definitely proven guilty, fine. Unfortunately, innocence can be harder to >demonstrate. >> At any rate, bans are being considered... >>Let's call him "Allwermann", by the way. >>Charley > >Thanks for the update. > >Marc Marc there is a stack of eyewitness testimony, and its not that some of his moves seemed to play like Fritz does, it was that allot of his moves play like Fritz, and I think the big banger was when he announced Mate in 8 moves. When his opponent questioned him to show him he said he could not, but low and behold there was an mate in 8 there. And when further questioned about how he knew this he said it was a lucky guess on his part. And when shown to about 6 grandmasters none of them said they would have been able to say there was checkmate in 8 moves as he did. I think apart from maybe being a cheat, this guy is also stupid. Like someone who robs a bank then goes around bragging about it. Or when you steal from a shop only to make sure you give the camera a big smile when you leave to show how good you are at stealing. This guy as reported in newspapers around the world, so I am quoting them and this is not coming from me, cheated and then went on to blow his cover by making a comment to show everyone how good he was, but really just ended up being a fool
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