being compensated for the lags ?
cheating?
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Latency is the correct term, although most use the term "lag". Google "what is latency" for a technical explanation. Your opponent is not cheating and his clock does the same thing on his computer.
IMDeviate wrote:
It could still be cheating...
You are correct, he could be playing a computer hacker that has devoted his time and energy into winning meaningless chess games.
TAGLARRY wrote:
IMDeviate wrote: It could still be cheating... You are correct, he could be playing a computer hacker that has devoted his time and energy into winning meaningless chess games.
+1
Nov 29, 2011
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IMDeviate wrote:
TAGLARRY wrote:
IMDeviate wrote: It could still be cheating... You are correct, he could be playing a computer hacker that has devoted his time and energy into winning meaningless chess games.
Yes, I was correct...and it doesn't take a hacker to cheat using lag. Anybody who knows how to click on a standard .exe file to install software can do it. That's a rather large pool of POTENTIAL cheats. Please note I'm not saying that every laggy player is cheating. But certainly there are some.
It seems unlikely that this would be an effective form of cheating. By the time this software was distributed to a significant amount of people chess.com could probably have some kind of detection in place. Basically what I mean is that it would be hard for a single, unchanging program to continually hack the ever improving chess.com servers. One hacker might be able to do it though, but I would guess it would take a lot of time and energy.
Nov 29, 2011
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Cystem_Phailure wrote:
In before the lock!
What does that mean? Are the mods going to lock the thread because it's outside of the cheating forum or something?
The lock
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
In before the lock!
Close but no catnip...
Nov 29, 2011
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What does that mean? Are the mods going to lock the thread because it's outside of the cheating forum or something?
Only if they see it.
Nov 29, 2011
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#14
"shhh" Mr.brown you mustn't talk about cheating here
see here, also there is a link for a group where you are allow to about it
http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/124/0/cheaters--cheating-what-you-need-to-know
I just played someone in 3 minute live chess, and when his timer went to 0 seconds it just went back to 1 or 2 seconds, and when it went back to 0 seconds again, it went back to 1 or 2 seconds so he never ran out of time.
Is this possible?
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