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Subject: Re: Should The Modern Chess Programs Contain "an easter egg"

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:10:46 09/11/99

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On September 11, 1999 at 12:46:41, Mind wrote:

>    I would like computer chess program designers and net game servers to work
>together to help detected "cheaters on multiplayers".All around the world chess
>is being ruined by people useing their chess programs against human opponents in
>a dishonest means. Sure there is nothing wrong with one on one against a
>computer.But when people take that to multiplayer and use it to increase their
>rateings it makes me want to vomit. Think about the poor people that actually
>want to play a person in an honest game of chess and instead they get a computer
>or a spoofer(time manipulater to server). I hope programmers and game site
>designers can work together perhaps by useing an "egg" on the program to help
>prevent computer programs to be abused in such a fashion. Well I am new here so
>mabye this idea is an old one,but nontheless I had to vent my opinion.

Don't beleive ratings for Chess over the internet. Same for all coorespondence
Chess, it's not realistic.

Pete



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