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Subject: Re: Computer internet vote cheating. My friend stuffed the TWIC vote on best

Author: Mark Crowther

Date: 11:48:54 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 13:37:34, Charles Unruh wrote:

>I have a friend who stuffed the voting box with 50 votes at twic to make Fischer
>come out as the best player of all time.  That being said lets get some polls up
>on if chess programs are GM strength, And Keep _ _ _  _ y _ _ t from voting
>heheeh :).

Or perhaps more accurately you have a friend who said he stuffed the ballot
(or do you mean you stuffed the ballot?).
I must admit its certainly possible, but it would have taken an aweful lot of
effort to come up with different sets of five names that didn't include Kasparov
and make them look different etc. Certainly possible. But being dumb I did look
at all of the votes. Very few people just voted for one person and also I did
remove some multiple votes. I've no idea who you are but aren't you really just
trolling?

In the end it was a bit of fun for those who participated (not so much fun
to compile the results it has to be said).

Mark Crowther
Editor TWIC
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html



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