No, she was banned for cheating too. She did have the cheater badge for a time. Then they removed it - maybe she confessed and apologized. But I've seen the results of analysis of her games too - blatant engine use.
Best Top Blogger on Chess.com: PaulEChess or Samantha212?
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That's right. She had the cheater's badge, but it was removed for some reason. That doesn't mean that she wasn't banned for cheating.
MGleason wrote:
Do we let someone get away with cheating just because he's a great blogger? I think not.
Exactly.
People who use software are depriving themselves of the joy and the sorrow of chess. Its a form of self delusion. Serioulsy we will never learn anything if we are a button pusher.
That's subjective.
I think achja
Dec 24, 2015
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As sad as it is that Paul and Samantha are banned, their blogs were often excellent.
Dec 24, 2015
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#95
So what did Samantha gain if she cheated? Money? FaMe? Who really cares why she might have done it. If she did it.
It doesn't effect you or me. How did they judge the moves she made weren't her own and they happened to be the best and not the worst. choice.
If I was to use an engine and my rating is what it is so what does that get me? Nothing. . . . ..I M H O. . . .
DENVER
robbie_1969 wrote:
The greatest blogger
Yeah I think Spektrowski has some nice blogs.
However, I think you have some nice ones as well.
http://www.chess.com/blog/robbie_1969
The only disagreements I have with Spektrowski blogs and your blogs is you guys don't have all your blogs categorized.
For example:
If you look at my blogs you can see how I like to categorize mine on the right side.
http://www.chess.com/blog/X_PLAYER_J_X
I think by categorizing your blogs you allow people the chance to see what you have created with out having them to search for it.
I believe people get frustrated.
I know from my own personal experince that I get frustrated.
Some people write a lot of articles and they never show what they have wrote.
So what ends up happening is I click on there blogs section and I see some of there blogs which I may like to see, but than I see blogs which I am not interested in seeing.
Than I keep pushing next to see if I can find other blogs I am interested in and than eventually after a few pages I get flustered and just give up.
Yeah I think some people do not have any consideration for the reader.
Why is Spektrowski making people filter through 40 pages of articles?
Why hasn't he categorized his articles?
Imagine going to a library searching for a book.
You get inside the library you ask the librarian if they have the book you are looking for.
The librarian answers yes and than points you to a stack of books laying on the floor in a pile.
You look at the pile and the pile is as big as a mountain.
You look back at the librarian and the librarian smiles and says "Happy Hunting".
No shelves, No order, No categorization!
Chaos!
Yeah Paul and Samantha understood that basic principle.
Which is what made them top blogger.
Dec 24, 2015
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#97
The problem is that you need to be consistent like Spektrowski and Robbie haven't made one for a while, you need to make one per a few days.
Also Samantha's organization was very good, she gave a picture, examples, some puzzles, and she also had very good topics.
Hillarious!
Ever since this thread started both users have been banned.
Is it just my thinking, or was this a set up by the OP?
I stopped making blogs in protest. I simply could not understand why some people were being promoted by chess dot com. I tried to find some reason in the content of their blogs and I could find nothing so I simply gave up because it was never going to be a level playing field.
Set up? No! PaulEChess was one of the best boggers on chess.com. His blogs were instructive, interesting, and at times, funny. Some of Samantha212's blogs were also really good. It took me by surprise when they were banned. Apparently, they were caught cheating in their games. The statistical evidence is also quite convincing. Still, it wasn't set up. Most of us couldn't even imagine them cheating before they were banned.
Is Paul E gone? say it aint so, just shows the chess.com noobs wouldn't know a decent blogger if they fell from the sky and landed smack bang in the middle of their chessboard clutching a letter of recommendation from Bobby Fischer still alive and well and hiding out in Iceland.
He was a great blogger. Unfortunately, he was also a cheater. The analysis of his games shows overwhelming evidence of engine use; I've seen some of the results, and it's pretty conclusive.
Do we let someone get away with cheating just because he's a great blogger? I think not.