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WizardlyChess

Bad idea, engine users would be running all over the place.

mnostrant

you cannot prevent computer cheating by any means. There are hand held devices that can play at 2400+ There are people at tournaments who "just want to enter their moves" on a pda or what ever and have a 2500 program running.

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petrip wrote:
mnostrant wrote:

you cannot prevent computer cheating by any means. There are hand held devices that can play at 2400+ There are people at tournaments who "just want to enter their moves" on a pda or what ever and have a 2500 program running.

Why would any tournament director allow having a tablet  or computer on boars during a game? certainly I have not seen that being allowed

http://monroi.com/products/personal-chess-manager.html

munterizer

Allowing electronic devices of any sort opens the possibilities of hacking, like in US schoolboy case where he hacked the monroi to run an engine on it.