Four more players banned for engine use. 3 of these on the first page.
User 117966
User 289344
User 295081
User 264478
Originally posted by Ari Brenin CymruNone of those surprise me (except that 1900 guy, most cheaters are rated a little higher).. wilfried especially.. i looked through his games and they are very 'engineish.
Four more players banned for engine use. 3 of these on the first page.
User 117966
User 289344
User 295081
User 264478
nah, I'm to lazy for that. How could you expect me to take the time to read 75 posts??? I´ve got better things to do!
Like ask people to repeat what has already been said to make up for your laziness? Sorry, but your reply is really pretty stupid.
On the topic, I don't understand why people put so much effort into winning games with engines. Surely it gets boring and pointless pretty quickly.
What stops these cheaters from just coming up with another user name and starting from scratch on here, again? Is there ip address recorded and banned also? If it is then, what if they use the library's computer to register from? It would be a different ip address. Is there really any way to keep them out for good?
When I started playing chess as a young (13) teenager, people would scoff if you said a computer would one day play better than the best human GMs. Now it's been proven that computers can be better players. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that the number of chess moves is finite (if mindbogglingly large), and thus, the game lost almost all it's mystique for me. I always viewed it as part art and a vehicle of expression as much as an exercise in calculation. That is where I saw the beauty in it. Computers have shown it to be nothing more than numbers, and irresistible logic. They reduced it to cold math.
I don't know why that has spoiled it for me, but it has. So I totally understand the necessity for sites like this to remove engine cheaters. It removes the human enjoyment from the game. People who use them are stealing the fun from the people who don't.
Quite apart from cheating being an unpleasant thing to do.
