Doak Heyser  	  Nov 30 1992, 1:33 pm     show options
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 20:52:16 GMT
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Subject: Animals run wild on the ICS server
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   Thanksgiving weekend was a wonderful oportunity to become a turkey
if you played chess on the ICS server.  Animals were feasting on a bug
to boost their ratings at the expense of other chessplayers.  Yes, it
was common for some players to castle twice anytime they were in danger
of losing.  These spineless slime-dogs were having a field day and
making the server a joke for real chess.  So beware.  Until the
castling bug is fixed (hopefully soon) any opponent you play on the
server might castle twice then smugly leave you a 'smiley face' comment
to exclaim their lack of morals.
   Truely though, you have to feel sorry for people so out of touch
that they cheat to keep from losing a game of chess.  Sad, real sad.

- Doak "who only cares about his non-existant FIDE rating anyway" Heyser

	
David Shorten 	  Dec 5 1992, 11:01 am     show options
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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 19:21:25 GMT
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Subject: Re: Animals run wild on the ICS server
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What is the ICS server and how do I play on it?

Thanks,

Dave S.

	
Peter J Bereolos 	  Dec 5 1992, 4:20 pm     show options
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Date: 4 Dec 92 22:28:49 GMT
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Subject: Re: Animals run wild on the ICS server
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In article <1992Nov30.33356.1...@dazixco.ingr.com> dhey...@dazixco.ingr.com (Doak Heyser) writes:
>   Thanksgiving weekend was a wonderful oportunity to become a turkey
>if you played chess on the ICS server.  Animals were feasting on a bug
>to boost their ratings at the expense of other chessplayers.  Yes, it
>was common for some players to castle twice anytime they were in danger
>of losing.  These spineless slime-dogs were having a field day and
>making the server a joke for real chess.  So beware.  Until the
>castling bug is fixed (hopefully soon) any opponent you play on the
>server might castle twice then smugly leave you a 'smiley face' comment
>to exclaim their lack of morals.

Not that the bug shouldn't be fixed, but it seems to me that it would be a
relatively rare occurance that a player could have his pieces on the right
squares to castle twice in a game.  That's probably the reason it took so long
to come up, although from Doak's tone it must have happened more than once to
him.

Pete
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Peter Bereolos                    
bereo...@ecn.purdue.edu          
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