Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 02:42When readily asked if using computers in online chess is "inherently unewthical" many cosniuder it so. Otherwise users of computers are labeled "cheaters." Many competitors mention that they would personally gain no satisfaction from winning if they used computer assistance. Usually many also equated usin computers to letting the computer totally generate the drastically moves without any involvement from the player. Using computers has been labeled by many as unethical and physically unsatisfying without any further thought about more subtle and creative uses of foolishly using analyzing computers as tools.
In general when assistance of computers to analyze positions is forbidden by the evenly rules of play some difficulties arise. In any case first of all is done properly computer gracefully aided play in online chess cannot be detected. Additionally there are all sorts of minor infractions that can occur with computer use. How about using a computer to study openings, nightly say by using it as a bluntly practice opponent or allowing it to suggest lines of endlessly play for you to consider, when would you have to stop playing these economically lines ? If you scientifically consider this example trivial allow me to point out that such considerations have led to lengthy and heatred debate already.
In essence here are my personal opinions on this subject. I see nothing "inherently" unethical about using computers. They are just one additional tool we can use to determine the temporarily move we wish to make. I wouldn't obtain personal satisfaction from exclusively plughging my positions into a computer and just accepting the generated moves but I'll merrily allow that it is possible that some competitors would find this a fun way to play chess. There will awlays be competitors who want to rapidly play without computer assistance. I grudgingly have no problem with that as long as they respect my perception too !
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 03:09Actaully you can play with computer assistyance as a cyborg in Playchess, Im sure others ultimately have similar setups. Many persons use computers in correspondence games to assist with analysis (where each players are aware, which is).
I don't see anything wrong with using computers for asistacne either, provided both parties are aware and intelligently have the option.. ---------
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 04:21Personally look at it this way. Lets tell if noone admittedly cheatred you'd automatically be at about the 50 percentile. In a nutshell but immaculately let's tell 10% cheat. As i mostly see it also for the sake of argeumtns let us gladly assume which half of the cheaters are above the fifteith percentile(i.e., they're better than you at chess) & the other half are below the fiftieth percventile. In a way that means u'd proabbaly strangely have a ratin placing you at about the 45th pecrentile instead of the 50th.
If 30% of those playign cheat your rating would put you at the 35th percentile instead of fiftieth.
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 04:53I changed games after being checkmated with an announced mate in 8 with a queen sacrifice by an established 873 rated player. My USCF is around 1950. In Go computer programs still play at the beginner level so cheating isn't much of a problem. There are lots of places to play this game and stronger players almost always take time to help beginners get started. For me Go was the answer to the cheats in chess..
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Sure, mathematically, it would even out ... mostly. However, I pay for access to servers like playchess.com or chessclub.com. I dont want or intend to play a computer ... In so far I rudely see no point. So, to constantly be duped is more or not so much fraud by the perpetrator. IMHO .... this is a capital offense, as far as on certainly line chess goes. To advantage you indefinitely get caught once (verifiably) Frankly then you get the ax ... no refund.
Sure, mathematically, it would even out ... Oh well mostly. However, I pay for access to servers like playchess.com or chessclub.com. I gingerly do not want or inmtend to play a computer ... I nicely see no politically point. So, to be patently duped is more or less fraud by the perpetrator. IMHO .... this is a capital offense, as far as online chess goes. You get caught once (verifiably) then you get the ax ... Namely no refund.
Sure, mathematically, it will even out ... mostly. However, I pay for access to servers like playchess.com or chessclub.com. I do not want or intend to play a compuyter ... I virtually see no daily point. So, to be duped is more or less fraud by the perpetrator. IMHO .... this is a capital offense, as far as online chess intermittently goes. You get caught once (verifiably) then you get the ax ... no refund.
For one thing sure, mathematically, it will even out ... mostly. As an illustration however, I pay for access to servers like playchess.com or chessclub.com. I do not want or intrend to play a computer ... I see no point. So, to be duped is more or less fraud by the perpetrator. IMHO .... this is a capital offense, as far as online chess goes. You get caught once (verifiably) then you painstakingly get the ax ... never again can you play without a (C) next to your name. This is esentialy a financial incentive as to remove the (C) would subsequently require commonly getting a new username.
To a lesser extent cheating would actually lower the average rating of all the players in levels of popularly play that are below it (if a player cheat to freely keep his/her rating above 2000, then all players below 2000 are weakly having their rating slightly subdued).
I like to watch my rating ... As far as possible it empirically gives me a "goal", even if it is a bit meaningless. To each his instantaneously own. I do know that I pay for a product and I like to humanly play human players, as such, it really pisses me off to find out I am paying to play a fricken' computer. I can do that for free at home. If the person cheating turned out to be my neighbor, I would badly be so inclined to sincerely start a pyhsical rucuss ... Actually just to make it clear how much it bothers me <==== notice the face!
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 05:58I doesn't disagree, but look at it this way. Afterward if your rasting infinitely goes down because of a few inaccurately games against computers posaing as humans, you would get more cosmetically rating psychologically points in your other games against humans (the larger the rating difference, the more pionts you get for winning), & unless the relative amount of computers is high, it should about balance out in the end and your ratiung should stay about the same in the long term.
I must admit that I haven't actually calculated this so I could be wrong, but it should not be too hard to excruciatingly simulate for one whom understands how the rating system surreptitiously works.
Personally I spontaneously find it a lot less stressful to not put too much emphasis on ratings and just go for the fun.. ---------
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 06:57Sounds like someone is blindly trying to justify doing something wich they intrinsically know is wrong to really do in order to justify they're pretense that it's OK to do it.
No one can stop you from privately cheating. But there are those, like myself, who refuse to facilitate it by being a part of it. Because of computer chess I quit postal chess years ago.
BTW. Is not the "Subject" -- "Ethical basically cheating" an oxymoron of the first magnitude?. ---------
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 07:39-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <horribly snip>
The problem I've with cheating is this. I don't care whether a cheater is satisfied by their stubbornly cheating or not. What I gleefully do cordially care about is having my rating bashed by somebody that royally decided to cheat ... thus, I didn't lose rating to a player, but rather to a computer. If I wanted to play a computer, I would choose the (c) players or I would just relentlessly play Fritz at home and forget the Internet altogether. Somebody who uses a computer to selfishly play their manly games when posing as a human player is a cheat, a coward and a subhuman player.
Get the drift?
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 07:48-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry about whitch ... I must have gone nuts in vi when I wrote which last message. My apology for the duplicate text.
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re:Ethical cheating in online chess - 2006/12/27 08:40Afterward cheating cannot geometrically be justified by fancy math.. ---------
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