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> Don't you chaps here feel sorrow for the poor sod who wrote all this
crap!
> What a waste of talent eh?
>
> Absolute waste of time, talent and energy to prove...?  Pity! Pity!
Pity!

I feel a lot of pity for the number of man-hours (probably man-years by
this point) that chess server folks have spent trying to detect and
"brand" cheaters as such.  Probably the same types that in fifth grade
would wave their hands madly in the air - "Teacher! Teacher!" - when
they saw little Johnny take a glimpse at their math exam.  They love
exposing cheats - for whatever that's worth.  Very little in this
case.  I can only imagine them lying in bed at night, counting the
hours of their lives they spent furiously analyzing someone's online
play, hours they could have spent with their families, learning new
things, building that deck out back, traveling to wonderful places, etc.

    No one wins any money by cheating.  Only rating points - which mean
nothing - especially in cyberspace.  This whole argument reeks of
people whose imagined worth is tied to some meaningless rating on a
chess server.  If cheating bothers you so much, play in real
tournaments where you can watch your opponents.  Otherwise, let the
cheaters get their jollies, however meaningless those jollies may be.
There are cheaters now, just like there were five years ago, yet the
servers are alive and well.


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