19 Nov '06 16:49>
Originally posted by 1973mackemI agree. Ratings are only there to give some idea of a players ability when choosing who you wish to play, and which tournaments you play in.
ratings are not all important, enjoying a good game is better. if you think your rating is false due to someone cheating, imgine what it must be like for those that use these engines, what pleasure must they get? What would be the point?
Ratings can be massaged anyway by choosing when to resign games. If you do it when their rating is higher than normal then you can avoid losing a certain amount of points.
There are also lots of players out there who resign all of their games to get into lower ranking tournaments. I think that this is more of an issue, and has more of an impact on rating accuracy than the current procedure with regard to engine usage.