Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 07:55:42 08/25/99
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>you reach the heart of the problem. Do you (a) eliminate cheating almost >completely by providing a closed client-to-server package that uses some >clever encryption to prevent unauthorized access? And, at the same time, >take on supporting a dozen different platforms with all the work that >entails? or (b) ignore the problem because it takes a huge amount of work >to do (a). > >Right now, (b) is the course of action everyone follows. But sooner or later, >something is going to have to be done... perhaps one idea is to provide a >'certified' client that authenticates itself with the server, and give members >the choice of only playing certified clients on the other end. Still allow >the many non-certified choices, but make everyone aware that they may well be >a pirate's den of sorts... > One method is after a person is caught cheating is to remove them FOREVER more. This would at least but a little fear in the hearts of cheaters. Right now, I think you are suspended, right? I don't know, as I don't cheat. >I suspect Kasparov knows what I think about his mannerisms in NY. And that >was just a 'dig' in the reverse direction. Plus he is supporting ChessBase >commercial engines with various sorts of public endorsements. I'm not losing >any sleep over it, because I get plenty of contra-comments from a host of other >GM players, including a couple that saw Kasparov's comments and labeled them >"stupid" or "ignorant" (the GM's words, not mine...) > Yes. Well that's too bad. I would kind of like to see Kasparov vs. Crafty running on a Quad Xeon machine w/ Linux. That would quite a show. >I actually have pgn for _every_ game crafty has played on the chess servers. >About 100-200mb last time I looked. But I don't have any good way to extract >things. I wrote a small C program to go thru and extract results so that I can >tell you how many wins/losses/draws/disconnects for any handle you want... Oh! Interesting. Is the data stored in one hugh text file or something? If it is PGN, isn't there a way to parse out certain games/positions? One could learn quite a bit from studying Crafty verses people all over the world. Thanks.
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