Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:03:21 03/28/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 21:56:24, Marc Plum wrote: >We've seen quite a lot in this forum about computer cheating. One recent thread >started with someone submitting a game from a suspected cheater, and asking if >others agreed with him. There have been many discussions and arguments of this >kind on RGCC as well. Many of these threads seem to start with the point of >view that a particular person, named or unnamed, is guilty of cheating, and give >arguments in favor of this view. > >I would find it interesting to hear another side of this. I believe we have a >number of readers who are considered expert in tracking cheaters. Do they have >any stories of accusations that turned out to be definitely unjustified? For >those who may investigate such accusations for ICC, FICS, etc, how often do >inexpert players make unjustified accusations? > >Best Wishes, > >Marc I know that I have been accused of cheating before. I remember one time I stayed up really late, and played blitz until about 5am in the morning... and dropped about 300 points while I was at it :-). Well, the next time I logged in, I had to start playing 1700s and 1800s to get my rating back up to the ICC 2000 area. So of course, I am smashing them left, right, and centre, and not one, but two! of my opponents accused me of cheating. I told them my name, my rating (21xx CFC), and that they could look it up at www.chess.ca if they had a problem. Needless to say, they didn't want to play me any more, but the great thing about internet chess is that there's always someone else around to play, so in the end it doesn't really matter. Dave Gomboc
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