Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:04:01 11/01/99
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On November 01, 1999 at 19:56:01, Charles Unruh wrote: >How can we ever have Regular(non GM)tourneys on the net when comps exist. >People are always talking about how the internet is the future of chess. >However how can anyone reasonably trust ones opponents. They can use books, >computers, even assistance from stronger players. I'm cheated on so much on the >net that i don't even play on ICC or FICS, i just look. Besides from what i can >see playing many blitz games does NOTHING to improve your game. For example >Mindman on FICS a real life 1600 uscf player when he started on fics 3 or 43 >years ago. Around the time he started he maintained a 1600-1750 internet >rating, now after 13000 games! his rating has dropped to 1300(steady) internet. >This guy is actually a PH.D so it's not because he's a moron either You can't, because people will cheat. You can't have a "club" chess tournament over the net for the same reason that you can't do random drug testing through the mail. If you want to play chess on ICC, play quick games with people of about your rating level, and if you lose, simply play another one, and if you lose several, play someone else. It takes a pretty weird computer operator to get a rating that approximates a club players, so as long as you play a bunch of people, the odds that you'll get a computer are fairly small. When I play "human" chess on the servers, which is not very often, I play 2 8 or 5 0 and I've never encountered a computer. I think that playing would improve your ability if you were intested in having it improve. bruce
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