Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:52:18 04/05/99
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On April 04, 1999 at 23:49:05, James Robertson wrote: >I saw a program on FICS I didn't recognize, and so I fingered it. In it's bio it >said it was a new, unnamed program. To see if it would play me, I checked it's >var settings to make sure it didn't have !computer. However, I also saw this: > >Interface: "WinBoard 4.0.2 + phalanx" > >This seems fishy. But before I start screaming "Cheater!!", does anybody have >any advice about what to do? People switch programs a lot, I don't think it is even technically cheating. It is hard enough making sure all of the C's really have C's without trying also to make sure that they are running exactly what they say. You'll see lots of strange examples, for instance there are a couple of guys who under-report their hardware, and some other guys who are very evasive about what software they are running. To those of us who enjoy playing everything new, the kind of thing you mention is annoying, but the explanation given in the other reply to this post makes it sound pretty innocent. bruce
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