I had an experience on RHP in which I had an extremely interesting and well-fought game for about twenty moves after which I refused a draw. Subsequently I was blown off the board in fewer than another ten.Jon Mahony wrote:I’ve never agreed with this philosophy of allowing engines in CC, I can see the point of view that its hard to police, but it seems to defeat the object of bothering at all to be honest. I play on Scheming Mind, which allows engines, but I never bother personally. I can always tell in first 15 moves or so, if I’m been a whipping boy for Stockfish or not.
Cheating in chess
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"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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Won't take my draw, on goes the engineJustinHorton wrote:I had an experience on RHP in which I had an extremely interesting and well-fought game for about twenty moves after which I refused a draw. Subsequently I was blown off the board in fewer than another ten.Jon Mahony wrote:I’ve never agreed with this philosophy of allowing engines in CC, I can see the point of view that its hard to police, but it seems to defeat the object of bothering at all to be honest. I play on Scheming Mind, which allows engines, but I never bother personally. I can always tell in first 15 moves or so, if I’m been a whipping boy for Stockfish or not.
I think some players won't deliberately set out to cheat, more talk themselves into it "Oh I know this is won... I'll just check."
I always enjoy CC sites until I hit about 1900 and I’m in with all the 2200+’s in tournaments, it’s me and my chess book Vs Megabase (perfectly legal) and engine once the position becomes unique.
When I can tell I’m in games like that I just loose interest, give each game 5 seconds thought and just play until I’m obviously lost and resign. No chance of winning any tournaments until the rating goes down enough to jump in about 5 under 1800 ones, rating goes back up, back to square one.
Slow though it is, postal Chess is actually much more enjoyable to me, as it’s usually against old blokes who’ve never held a mouse
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Does England have a representative on the FIDE cheating committee or does Brusells have competence.
Perhaps a former British champion with the appropriate gravitas such as say Bill Hartston might be appropriate??
Perhaps a former British champion with the appropriate gravitas such as say Bill Hartston might be appropriate??
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The FIDE website has detailsIanCalvert wrote:Does England have a representative on the FIDE cheating committee or does Brusells have competence.
http://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide ... =committee
There's no English representative, but Andy Howie of Scotland is listed.
Several European Federations are also represented.
Andy Howie is currently listed as Executive Director of Chess Scotland
http://www.chessscotland.com/membership ... actsCS.htm
which I could suppose is a broadly similar status and role to that of Phil Ehr.
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After a flurry of activity last year, I don't really know what the Anti-Cheating Commission has been doing. I hope to learn something at the Congress, although they have not submitted an agenda for their meeting.
Sebastien Feller is back, and was allowed to retain his rating from before the ban, which looks controversial to me.
Sebastien Feller is back, and was allowed to retain his rating from before the ban, which looks controversial to me.
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My info is that there will not be an Anti-Cheating Commission meeting in Abu Dhabi.
I also believe that the Commission has been fairly active behind the scenes.
I also believe that the Commission has been fairly active behind the scenes.
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I had a similar experience twice against the same guy on RHP. Both games followed the same pattern: he played pretty badly and I went a piece up without too much trouble - at which point he suddenly gets spectacularly difficult to beatJon Mahony wrote: Won't take my draw, on goes the engine
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This is appalling news, although I am not completely surprised. The whole point is that the chess world needs to be reassured that something can be done, and is being done, about cheating. Being active behind the scenes is precisely what is not required.Alex McFarlane wrote:My info is that there will not be an Anti-Cheating Commission meeting in Abu Dhabi.
I also believe that the Commission has been fairly active behind the scenes.
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Anyone got any further details about this? E.g. game scores, or an eye-witness account.
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It's been added to an extremely long running thread.John Clarke wrote:Anyone got any further details about this
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 40#p162935
Some fairly weak player got tooled up to have a moment of glory, but was busted by the organisers.
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Hi Jon
Austin Lockwood
SchemingMind webmaster
I can assure you that this is most certainly not the case!Jon Mahony wrote: I play on Scheming Mind, which allows engines
Austin Lockwood
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Roger de Coverly wrote:The FIDE website has detailsIanCalvert wrote:Does England have a representative on the FIDE cheating committee or does Brusells have competence.
http://www.fide.com/fide/directory/fide ... =committee
There's no English representative, but Andy Howie of Scotland is listed.
Several European Federations are also represented.
Andy Howie is currently listed as Executive Director of Chess Scotland
http://www.chessscotland.com/membership ... actsCS.htm
which I could suppose is a broadly similar status and role to that of Phil Ehr.
Damn I have been outed
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Hi Austin,Austin Lockwood wrote:Hi Jon
I can assure you that this is most certainly not the case!Jon Mahony wrote: I play on Scheming Mind, which allows engines
Austin Lockwood
SchemingMind webmaster
I seem to remember a problem with regards to SCCA games and engines on SM recently - consequently all our SCCA games played on SM were made ungraded, because engines are not allowed in the SCCA but are on SM.
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Hi Jon,
Actually the opposite; the games can't be graded on the SchemingMind rating system because SCCA allows engine use but SM doesn't.
Cheers,
Austin
Actually the opposite; the games can't be graded on the SchemingMind rating system because SCCA allows engine use but SM doesn't.
Cheers,
Austin