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Opponent copies your moves in daily chess tournament
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Slowly force them to play their moves first i.e. take a lot longer in one game than the other.
Jan 10, 2014
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#4
I see... So I've got no other options as to play this game forever, making 1 move at a day. Nice style of trolling btw :)
It's probably cheating, not sure if it's against the rules or not tbh.
Jan 10, 2014
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#6
I think, I will try to report this issue to site admins, as soon as find complaints form :)
Move the same piece back and forth and draw by repetition.
vdribadan wrote:
Thank you, kind sir!
Don't waste your time, it's not cheating.
In what world would copying moves be cheating? What is this thread.
Cheddarman1 wrote:
In what world would copying moves be cheating? What is this thread.
Our world.
He's not copying moves in a single game. He's using the moves of one ongoing game to choose the moves in the other. People have been banned for it in the past.
Jan 10, 2014
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ActiveKing написал:
Don't waste your time, it's not cheating.
If it is not cheating, I can show pretty good results in such tournament playing against GMs :)
Gyryth написал:
Move the same piece back and forth and draw by repetition.
Maybe, I don't want to draw against weaker opponent and loose points?:)
Jan 10, 2014
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#16
If someone were doing this to me, I would find a way to use the clock against them. I think that the following might work: If I make my move as white when they have gone to sleep (or to work), it will be 8 to 10 hours before they make their move as white. In a one day per move time control, they will then have 16 hours to make their move as black, but I will have 24 hours. Therefore, they have to make their move as black before I make mine.
It's not cheating, even if deliberately using one game to figure out moves in another. Once a move is made, it is 'public' for correspondence purposes, and can be used in the same way as any other public record of chess play.
However ... that doesn't answer the question of how to respond to it at the board. But the answer is simple -- separate the games in time; speed one up and slow the other down. There is an obvious choice of which game to speed up, but I'll leave this as a thought exercise.
tubebender wrote:
Scottrf wrote:
Cheddarman1 wrote:
In what world would copying moves be cheating? What is this thread.
Our world.
He's not copying moves in a single game. He's using the moves of one ongoing game to choose the moves in the other. People have been banned for it in the past.
As you know, symmetry in Chess is part of the game. It is well known that some openings such as the Four Knights opening, the Symmetical English, King`s Indian Attack (Symmetrical System) and some variations of other openings that "devolve" into identical positions are situations that every Chess player has to deal with. I never heard of any penalties imposed for mimicry of one`s opponent`s moves. John Watson in his excellent book Secrets of Chess Strategy (hope I have the title right!) has a whole chapter on this topic and the advantage of the first move. The "trick", if you will, is to find the appropiate moment to break the symmetry; in other words, you have to endeavour to make such a move that your opponent cannot copy without incurring a huge disadvantage in position or loss of material. Often, at best, even if your opponent plays intelligently, you may only get a minimally better position which still looks drawish. You can google articles on this subject. A long time ago on this site I tried to start a thread on this subject but no one was interested. I think that this is a good subject. I teach kids and I often have to show them how blind copying can lead to big trouble. I think we all should discuss this further--a really good topic.
You misread my post.
tubebender wrote:
Scottrf wrote:
Cheddarman1 wrote:
In what world would copying moves be cheating? What is this thread.
Our world.
He's not copying moves in a single game. He's using the moves of one ongoing game to choose the moves in the other. People have been banned for it in the past.
As you know, symmetry in Chess is part of the game. It is well known that some openings such as the Four Knights opening, the Symmetical English, King`s Indian Attack (Symmetrical System) and some variations of other openings that "devolve" into identical positions are situations that every Chess player has to deal with. I never heard of any penalties imposed for mimicry of one`s opponent`s moves. John Watson in his excellent book Secrets of Chess Strategy (hope I have the title right!) has a whole chapter on this topic and the advantage of the first move. The "trick", if you will, is to find the appropiate moment to break the symmetry; in other words, you have to endeavour to make such a move that your opponent cannot copy without incurring a huge disadvantage in position or loss of material. Often, at best, even if your opponent plays intelligently, you may only get a minimally better position which still looks drawish. You can google articles on this subject. A long time ago on this site I tried to start a thread on this subject but no one was interested. I think that this is a good subject. I teach kids and I often have to show them how blind copying can lead to big trouble. I think we all should discuss this further--a really good topic.
I think you have misunderstood what is happening. The OP is not referring to symmetrical positions in a single game. He is referring to two separate identical games.
Hi everyone!
I need some consultation on the following issue:
I'm participating in a daily chess tournament where you play 2 games against 1 opponent at once. It turned out that my opponent is just copying moves that I make as white in a game, where I play as black and vice versa, actually making me to play against myself.
Any suggestions on how to handle this situation?