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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 11:53:01 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 14:48:54, Mark Crowther wrote:

>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

For all we know this friend just SAID he stuffed the ballot to discredit the
poll....

James



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