On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:09:59 +0100, "Terry"
wrote:

Have you considered that he may not actually be cheating ??????????????
This often happens with the ISP.

Yes, that's why I advocated an abort without penalty, rather than
trying to claim a forfeit of some kind.

I had a game the other day where a big lag (about 8 seconds) suddently
appeared, and I sent a message, "nice lag" to my opponent. He
replied, "oops, can we abort ?", I agreed and we aborted the game. He
apologized and explained that he had another window open kibitizing
and this had caused the lag.

There's no fool-proof way to identify someone cheating, but when the
lag appears toward the middle or end of a close game where your
opponent is behind on time, one suspects.....strongly.