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Subject: Re: How far does one take this?

Author: David Dawson

Date: 08:59:46 03/18/99

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On March 18, 1999 at 04:40:32, Bruce Moreland wrote:


>Goofy stuff happens everywhere.  I had an admin on ICC spoof my program so that
>it would play him at time controls it otherwise wouldn't play.  I had another
>admin make a clearly wrong adjudication at my opponent's request, and when I
>asked why, I was told that humans are given the benefit of the doubt, since the
>computer won't care either way.
>
>These are just a couple of examples on that server.  I'm sure fics and chess.net
>would have done similar stuff if I had spent as much time there.
>
[snip]

I don't believe admins do this at chess.net.
In fact, when adjudicating a computer's games on chess.net, I usually give the
computer more than fair treatment, as the computer would *probably* win anyhow.

MBM



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