09 Feb '07 16:42>
Originally posted by Dragon FireMarried for just three months and already he is jaded by it all.
Marriages?
Originally posted by Dragon FireThis has been discussed ad nauseam. All blunder rates tell you is how careful a player is - an engine user with a high blunder rate is just a careless engine user; honest players are going to miss things.
If what you are saying (and I suspect it is) that you don't play like a patzer one day and a GM the next then I agree. Such a sudden and dramatic improvement evidenced by a long string of games (at patzer level) suddening becoming a long string of games (at GM level) would indicate definate abuse. Any such improvement would be slow (over years not month ...[text shortened]... se is possible. Analysis of a significant number of games would then be required to prove this.
Originally posted by UndeadNightOrcmost people here use databases and download pgns all the time.
They should also be checking the frequency with which the player downloads the PGN/FEN files of a game. If it's every other turn or more than that, that would, to me, indicate very suspicious behavior. I mean, who needs to see PGN/FEN copies of the game every move?
Originally posted by UndeadNightOrcI can see little point in downloading it until the game is over.
They should also be checking the frequency with which the player downloads the PGN/FEN files of a game. If it's every other turn or more than that, that would, to me, indicate very suspicious behavior. I mean, who needs to see PGN/FEN copies of the game every move?
Originally posted by UndeadNightOrcNice observation made Mr. UNO - being a non-techy (my last computer programme was chess master 5000 or something!), I don't think about all these computer manipulations. 🙂
They should also be checking the frequency with which the player downloads the PGN/FEN files of a game. If it's every other turn or more than that, that would, to me, indicate very suspicious behavior. I mean, who needs to see PGN/FEN copies of the game every move?
Originally posted by thekillersfanLook, this is a total red herring - if someone never downloaded the PGN would you take that as evidence of non-use of an engine? It's like saying that all people who own knives are murder suspects. The way engine users are caught is by the moves they make, and occasionally by confessing in the forums; using the FEN or PGN in a database or winboard is perfectly within the rules of the site provided that no engine is switched on.
Nice observation made Mr. UNO - being a non-techy (my last computer programme was chess master 5000 or something!), I don't think about all these computer manipulations. 🙂