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Originally posted by Ragnorak
If you believe someone is cheating, gather evidence, wait until the cheat police are in place and report it to them. In the meantime, quit posting your unfounded accusations/insinuations in the forums. Your kind of shenanigans help nobody on the site.

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He doesn't have evidence. He's a whining crybaby, doing what whining crybabies do.

He enjoys being an a**hole, and that's why he's one, and why he will always be one.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
If you stopped wasting everyone's time posting pointless threads about how much you suck you might have seen the threads that have accused Ironman of cheating in the past. Each time it has been shown that if you look at his games he plays nothing like a computer. His play is beautiful and he finds moves that a computer just doesn't play. Go ahead try and ...[text shortened]... won't find anything meaningful. Learn how computers play chess before trying to expose a cheat.
He doesn't suck at chess. He sucks at being a human being.

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Hey, mateulose, have you ever read any books on how to be decent?

If so, they didn't work, did they?

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So back to facts: If Ironman spends five hours a day moving, he'll spend average of about 2 1/2 minutes per game. Ten hours would double his time to five minutes per game, but I don't think he could stand it that long. I've seen masters do simuls where they play, say, fifty players and spend less than a minute a board while walking, talking, etc., and suffer no more than a couple of losses. Realistically, you only think much in maybe 50% of your moves anyway. The rest are simple exchanges or rote opening moves, development, etc. so it's definitely possible. I'm presently being crushed by Ironman in a couple of games, but I'm looking to learn a little in the process. I know there are players who can do it, I just wish they'd share their knowledge in the process so that lower players like Mataleuse and me don't thrash around in ignorance.

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Originally posted by buddy2
So back to facts: If Ironman spends five hours a day moving, he'll spend average of about 2 1/2 minutes per game. Ten hours would double his time to five minutes per game, but I don't think he could stand it that long. [snip] I know there are players who can do it, I just wish they'd share their knowledge in the process so that lower players like Mataleuse and me don't thrash around in ignorance.
You're assuming he moves in each and every one of his games every day. If he only moves in each game once every three days or so, that gives him over 7 minutes per move. Taking a quick glance at his games in progress, he's got games which haven't been moved in for several weeks. I'd say at any given time, Ironman has fewer than 65 games in which he moves in a given day, maybe 20 of which require much thought on his part.

In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that using an engine on that many games would be harder than actually playing them! It would take longer to set up in the computer than to just figure out what the next move should be...

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Originally posted by neight
You're assuming he moves in each and every one of his games every day. If he only moves in each game once every three days or so, that gives him over 7 minutes per move. Taking a quick glance at his games in progress, he's got games which haven't been moved in for several weeks. I'd say at any given time, Ironman has fewer than 65 games in which he moves ...[text shortened]... ld take longer to set up in the computer than to just figure out what the next move should be...
Plus,he plays games against much weaker players,like me,where I doubt he has to do any thinking at all.

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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
Plus,he plays games against much weaker players,like me,where I doubt he has to do any thinking at all.
Hmmm, my experience is, not thinking at all in chess will get you a loss against ANY player, no matter the rating. You can't just make beautiful combinations with intuition.

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get tony in here

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Originally posted by mateulose
Hmmm, my experience is, not thinking at all in chess will get you a loss against ANY player, no matter the rating. You can't just make beautiful combinations with intuition.
Figure of speech,of course.I meant he hardly has to think to beat players of my level.

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Originally posted by buddy2
I just wish they'd share their knowledge in the process so that lower players like Mataleuse and me don't thrash around in ignorance.
Ironman has agreed to an unrated Ironman v Rest of RHP game, similar to the RHP V Fritz game.

I'm just not sure whether I should start it now, cos it might be flooding the chess forum playing two of these types of games.

Any thoughts.

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Originally posted by mateulose
Oh boy, I don't want to get into this topic AGAIN, because A LOT of ppl admire Ironman as a hero, but personally, you all know my opinion on this matter, ugh. . .
Ironman is not that good. I am only impressed by players like Fischer, Tal, and Botvinnik ect. I do not consider Ironman a great player. I do not know why he is such a hero to these players. P.S. I do not mean to insult Ironman or his fans.

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Originally posted by gambit3
Ironman is not that good. I am only impressed by players like Fischer, Tal, and Botvinnik ect. I do not consider Ironman a great player. I do not know why he is such a hero to these players. P.S. I do not mean to insult Ironman or his fans.
What a genius you are,it's obvious that some World champions are better than him............

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Originally posted by dpressnell
Hey, mateulose, have you ever read any books on how to be decent?

If so, they didn't work, did they?
If you think his chess persona sucks, ask him about world politics sometimes.