The BEST cheat deterrent...

One option would be for the site to revert to the rules of chess as it was played before the 14th Century. So Queens have the same moves as the king, pawns can only go forward one space, bishops move 2 squares and you can't castle. This would break every single chess engine on the market. The only problem is we'd be playing a different game. I don't think that there's an easy method of doing this, other than catching enough of them so that people don't get tempted.

Edit: It might make for an interesting themed tournament though.

Originally posted by Wheely
Firstly, I myself, don't have any dll's on my machine and there are a significant number of people who also don't have any.

Well I'm not being funny here, but if you have no dll's, then you are running a very strange operating system.

But I'm only making (silly?) suggestions. Maybe the meeting up / RHP sponsored tournaments idea is the best of the lot. 🙂

I think the best cheat deterrent is to not allow anyone to play any moves on this site at all. That way there won't be any cheats.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
I think the best cheat deterrent is to not allow anyone to play any moves on this site at all. That way there won't be any cheats.

Comprehensive! I like it!

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
I think the best cheat deterrent is to not allow anyone to play any moves on this site at all. That way there won't be any cheats.

yet half of us would continue to pay.

Originally posted by DeepThought
One option would be for the site to revert to the rules of chess as it was played before the 14th Century. So Queens have the same moves as the king, pawns can only go forward one space, bishops move 2 squares and you can't castle. This would break every single chess engine on the market. The only problem is we'd be playing a different game. I don ...[text shortened]... t people don't get tempted.

Edit: It might make for an interesting themed tournament though.

it would make an interesting tournament at that

Originally posted by derek9037
Well I'm not being funny here, but if you have no dll's, then you are running a very strange operating system.

But I'm only making (silly?) suggestions. Maybe the meeting up / RHP sponsored tournaments idea is the best of the lot. 🙂

Not really, the majority of operating systems don't have any files called anything remotely like *.dll

I'll admit to having dynamically loadable libraries and shared libraries too but a) they don't appear in process lists b) can easily be disguised as something else and c) don't get used if I statically link an engine for which I have the source.

Given the number of operating systems out there, I'm not sure any kind of spyware is going to be of much use.