New form of cheating

8 weeks ago · Quote · #1
GDring

I think i have found a new form of cheating.

I can't believe that so many lady chess players have such attractive avatars - do you think they are cheating?
8 weeks ago · Quote · #2
stephen_33

What makes you think they really are ladies - have you heard that on the internet, g.i.r.l's are often guys in real life?
8 weeks ago · Quote · #3
GDring

Nobody trusts anybody in this forum!
8 weeks ago · Quote · #4
Martin_Stahl

Hey, on the internet no one knows if you are a dog ... or a cat ...
8 weeks ago · Quote · #5
waterbat

or a cow.
8 weeks ago · Quote · #6
Conflagration_Planet

Or a woolly bully.
8 weeks ago · Quote · #7
sonofthoughtdancer

You are probably getting all hot over a picture, some fat boy put up and is in his underware, thinking just how hot you are getting... It's only cheating if you lover don't mind...
8 weeks ago · Quote · #8
GDring

Sounds like you're talking from experience there sonof...
8 weeks ago · Quote · #9
sonofthoughtdancer

GDring wrote:

Sounds like you're talking from experience there sonof...

Experience, you mean like getting hot over a fake picture of a sultry lass? Or one from the opposite side of that scenario, putting up sexy pictures hoping to get some idiot excited? No, I have other ways to amuse myself, than either fore mentioned passtime... But as Carlos Castenada once told Don Juan on a like note; "one need not have tasted the soup to know its recipe"... The episode you are descibing here is not unique, nor is people talking falsely...
8 weeks ago · Quote · #10
GDring

And Don Juan must have told Carlos you can't taste the soup from reading the recipe - but that's another story.

Nice to meet another Carlos fan
8 weeks ago · Quote · #11
87654321

Its a very murky area of the site which could do with clearing out. Males with model/actress avatars, each having hundreds of weirdo friends.

Examples from just the one account and the accounts group admins.

https://www.chess.com/member/rosieangel

https://www.chess.com/member/lisa1612

https://www.chess.com/member/GAMEOVERFORU2

https://www.chess.com/member/jenny987

https://www.chess.com/member/sakshi_cool
8 weeks ago · Quote · #12
MikeRoberts1

I played Jenny 987. Kept messaging me to hurry up even though it was a turn based game.
8 weeks ago · Quote · #13
GDring

8to1

Your are ruining my illusions!
7 weeks ago · Quote · #14
sonofthoughtdancer

GDring wrote:

And Don Juan must have told Carlos you can't taste the soup from reading the recipe - but that's another story.

Nice to meet another Carlos fan

Yes, there is that side of the coin too... Cheers, GDring...
7 weeks ago · Quote · #15
pdrive

87654321 wrote:

Its a very murky area of the site which could do with clearing out. Males with model/actress avatars, each having hundreds of weirdo friends.

Examples from just the one account and the accounts group admins.

https://www.chess.com/member/rosieangel

https://www.chess.com/member/lisa1612

https://www.chess.com/member/GAMEOVERFORU2

https://www.chess.com/member/jenny987

https://www.chess.com/member/sakshi_cool

Don't we have a policy against naming cheaters in public when it's not yet fully concluded?

And what criteria do we use to tell these accounts are males in disguise? They all have pretty feminine-sounding names to me. There has got to be some strict measurements (alongside the strength of T1, T2, T3) to make this conclusion, right? Please don't tell me you're ruining the aspiration of so many young males without proof. (And no, I'm no longer a young male, but still...)
7 weeks ago · Quote · #16
gambit-man

pdrive wrote: ...(And no, I'm no longer a young male, but still...)

You've had gender reassignment?
7 weeks ago · Quote · #17
pdrive

Ah, forget about it :) It was just an attempt to be tongue-in-cheek, but in hindsight it probably came out more serious than light-hearted. Although seriously, a T1 measurement to determine if a player is m/f? Someone has got to find humor in there, right? Or is it actually a serious research item right now?

(If it's a research item, I would expect Nigel Short to have something to do with it. Maybe he'll come out with something like "this move is so superior it has to be made by a male player. We know that statistically women cannot make this kind of killer move. Women's move tend to be gentle, loving, caressing even, but not crippling and devastating like this death blow" :)
4 weeks ago · Quote · #18
TRextastic

I've been accused several times of being a man, not sure why. Even other girls have said so until they stalked my photo on Google's image search and found my other accounts online and confirmed I am who I say I am. What I don't get is why it matters? Maybe gambit-man really is a building. Who cares? Just play chess. You shouldn't be getting sweaty over profile pics, real or not, anyway.
4 weeks ago · Quote · #19
gambit-man

TRextastic wrote:

Maybe gambit-man really is a building. Who cares? Just play chess. You shouldn't be getting sweaty over profile pics, real or not, anyway.

That really is me...

Seriously though, i'm sporting an image of one of the most distinctive landmarks in the city of Liverpool, once Europe's tallest building. On the top are the famous Liver birds. For those of you on the other side of the pond, there were 96 football (soccer) fans were killed by crushing at the start of a match back in 1989. It's taken until this week for them to get any sort of justice, being shafted time after time by authorities, who have sought only to protect themselves without any regard for the truth...
4 weeks ago · Quote · #20
GhostNight

Just wondering why a attractive girl would post her actual picture as her avatar in the first place, say like TRex. You are attractive, but what is your meaning or the reaction you are looking for from total strangers, and from around the world. This is the inter=net little girl. If you and most other people came here to exclusively to play chess, why not post a picture of your dog, or a fish, etc? And I like gambit-man's avatar, that's a chess player! Planet and sonofthoughtdancer, their avatars are cool and original!!

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