"help bot" wrote in message
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Personally, I don't think chess professionals like IM Innes ought to
participate; at 2450, no one else stands a chance,

Help-bog, the Official Spokeperson for No One, excuses himself from joining
We the People by actually playing chess, and regrets those who do. Its a sad
song, sung soooo long now.

My cc rating is only 2190, and I got it the old fashioned way, I earned it.

and besides,
even if someone else did stand a chance, it could easily be quashed
by even a single, decisive blow from Rybka, the world's strongest
chess program (sorry, Sanny).

I am currently playing one person rated sub-1400 who is possibly using
Sargon. He is playing much stronger with white and black than an 1840 player
in the same tournament. But I don't really see any extensive evidence of
computer-aided cheating at GetClub. Of course, Help-bog has a moto perpetuo
theme of paranoia about what others might be doing out there beyond the corn
fields, and is disinclined to risk his maidenhood by goin' to the dance.

I was told that RedHotPawn was a superior site to play when
compared to GetClub, and so I'm giving it a spin. Thus far, I
have almost nothing but *miniatures* of players who, obviously,
know little or nothing next to me. I can imagine that some of
these victims believe they have been cheated, since my steel-
trap-like mind churns out computer-precise combinations with
ease. Far better for the true geniuses of the royal game to face
one another, and leave the patzers to their own kind, thus
avoiding any "massacres" of the peons.

Brave words! Small bishop!

PI

-- help bot