Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:00:09 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 11:07:02, Zachariah Amela wrote: >How does FICS stop cheaters? I know they run rampant at times. > >Could there sys query the client for any memory resident chess prgs? I know >this doesn't rule out a cheater w/ a second PC or network, but it would be a >start. Just curios. I have suggested that the only reasonable way to control cheating is to control the client software. ICC ought to take their blitzin interface, and modify it and the server so that blitzin is the _only_ interface that will work. And then they can take countermeasures inside blitzin to address the cheating issue, without having all the other interfaces that would not have the countermeasures included. Until that happens, it is hopeless... > >Also, how does Crafty know that it is playing a cheater w/ a (c)? Dr. Hyatt >mentioned that he had a prg that did this. I was curios how it worked. Not quite what I said. I gave some patches to Tim Mann (for winboard/xboard) that recongizes when the opponent is in the 'computer' list. It will then tell the chess engine by sending a command "computer" to the program. If a person is using a computer, and has a (C) on their handle, then this code works fine. But it doesn't work if the person is 'cheating' as it won't have any idea the guy is using a computer. > >Lastly, Dr. Hyatt said that no GM has beaten Crafty three games in a row. Has >Kasparov ever "officially" taken on Crafty? I would be interested in that game. > >Thanks. Not that I can verify. I can't think of another GM that hasn't, however, from Karpov on down. I tend to think Kasparov has not played Crafty, because the last comment I saw from him was something like "It is weak, actually". Of course, I'd be more than happy to take him on in a blitz match to see how weak it really is. :) But actually, playing him isn't a real priority of mine, because if Crafty won, we'd have to put up with whining about poor conditions, too noisy, the computer had help, etc. IE there would be _no way_ to win against him... even to win would be to lose, IMHO. I prefer to play all the other GM players that _do not_ have the obnoxious attitude. There are plenty of them, with Kamsky right at the top of the list, but with many others that are equally as congenial.
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