Author: Anthony Bailey
Date: 14:23:09 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 16:32:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >There is no way to prepare for any possible cheating methodology. I could hack >headers and fake 10,000 emails that would be virtually indistinguishable from >the real thing. Sophisticated or not, whether they were clever enough to >prevent cheating is a moot point. They actually did discard an obvious attempt >to throw the match (the tossed queen). Hence, they did actually intervene to >prevent what was obviously dirty pool by someone. Sometimes the least prudent >attack is the one that succeeds. MS did nothing wrong in my view, unless they >deliberately violated the rules. The situation is not a simple one, but the discarding of the entire vote to throw the Queen is difficult to defend. The Zone ignored all votes for 59. ... Qe1, including the legitimate ones. This move was made by hundreds of players (I'm one) to indicate that we knew the game was lost and wished to resign with some dignity (the Zone didn't include a resignation option until later.) The Zone threw out every vote, including the legal ones, which is abut as much of a deliberate violation of the rules that one could imagine. Re vote-stuffing in general the situation is more complicated still, but a brief summary is that the Zone claimed the ability to detect cheating but failed to do so despite the claims by many people that they successfully stuffed votes, and then also failed to make use of their alleged abilities on the aforementioned move 59, instead throwing out the entire vote. They undertook a difficult job, and some mistakes were to be expected. But from where I sit it does look as if they underresourced the event and mismanaged it pretty badly on more than one occasion. They certainly annoyed just about everybody who was committing a lot of time to the game a great deal. >It appears that Irene may have had some assistance (though this is only rumor), >which could explain why her analysis shone like the sun. The rumor that Karpov was involved has been denied by Smart Chess Online. It was no secret that Irina's trainer GM Ron Henley was assisting her. But the main assistance for Irina came from the World! Many players met and analysed the game on discussion boards both on and off MS's gaming site. Irina acted as the proxy for all of these players, collating the analysis and making a recommendation when the time came. She was the only one of the analysts to bother to do this. (She also put an enormous amount of time into analysis herself; she was probably responsible for as large a proportion of the most valuable analysis as any other player, but the whole thing was always very much a team effort.) - Anthony.
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