🚀 go-pugleaf

i guess cheating can help your chess since you understand how to play
common middlegame positions.  Besides the reason cheating occurs is
probably because people want higher internet ratings. Hence the reason
why internet ratings don't mean anything



In article <Zat65.78251$7o1.1884125@news2.rdc1.on.home.com>,
  "CCCage" <cccage@anonymous.to> wrote:
>
> <tsmiller2@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8jdgj6$nb1$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> >
> > > 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.
>
> This is a rather rude analogy.....would you say the same about
> private detectives, policeman, FBI, CIA, Scotland Yard, tax
> auditors and the list goes on.  Having the ability and/or desire
> to investigate 'in your opinion' is not appropriate, but 'others
> opinions' may not be the same as yours !!
>
> > 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.
>
> Many Many people do not hold your point of view, I am beginning
> to think that you are particularly negative in your thinking,
> generally speaking.
>
> Regards,
>
> CCCage
>
> >
> >
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> > Before you buy.
>
>

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