I am watching a tournament game on another site. The game opened with the Blachly gambit.I did A database search on opening moves,to learn about this opening and found a library of many games that have used this opening.In this game there have been twenty two seperate moves and every move has been identicle to a game I found in the database.How many moves does it take before you are no longer using an opening move database and are now cheating?Is it a coincedence that the moves are exact or is one opponent using an engine?Can an engine duplicate moves that were made sometime before in another game and is it possible that someone in the other game was cheating too?

If the lads are following a DB then they can follow the DB till checkmate
if it goes that far.

What may have happened is that one lad has run this game through a top box
and it has found a smashing move. So the lad leads someone along this path
and then unleashes his corker.

It's not cheating in the sense of the word because the lad did not use the
box during the game, but before it.

If questioned and the lad says this is the case then you have to believe him.
Also the chances are you will find a game he played without the corker thus
verifying the fact he boxed it (or burnt some midnight oil) in between games.

A wee bit of a grey area because you are using a box in a postion
you know or hope WILL appear in one of your games.

TOS:

While a game is in progress you may not refer to chess engines, chess computers
or be assisted by a third party. Endgame tablebases may not be consulted during
play but you may reference books, databases consisting of previously played
games between human players, and other pre-existing research materials.

So you running a box over a previous game and finding a smashing move can
come under the banner of ' pre-existing research materials'

But if the DB you are using has box analysis in it and is therefore not between
human players then.....grey area.

Since I maybe one of the only people in the world not to own a chess engine and can't study the game to see if one or more of the players are using an engine.Can one duplicate the game by putting the moves into a chess engine?Or will the engine not make the same counter moves everytime,say after seven or eight moves.The two opponents in this game are niether the same opponents in the previous game.

Maybe They will let you post a link.If you ask through the send feedback.

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So I guess you can use opening databases to a certain point which really hasn't been defined as number of moves and you can use end game references.(which I didn't know there was such a thing.)If some one is really good at riding that fine line of starting out with database openings and making a couple of moves off the top of their head which then takes them to an end game reference.How is that not playing against corespondence rules?On this site for example would it not be a lot easier for the mods to study grey area games if they did away with or made the rules about database openings and end game references a little stricter.Sure someone says they are playing within the rules using database openings and endgame references,one can't tell me that a percentage of the most honest players haven't fudged once or twice.

The game can be posted only when it's finished.
You can add when the DB ended and when the game 'started',
but don't add anything else or the thread may get pulled, again.

I know a player on the front page once said in their profile
that they used endgame tablebases. It has since been edited.

I'm of the opinion that they did not know it was not allowed,
else why say such a thing, it can only be an honest error.
Or perhaps they just got the wording wrong and meant endgame databases.

We have to remember that English is not the Mother tongue of
some players on here. I could not write my profile in a foreign language.
I saw it as an honest and genuine mistake.

(what are endgame databases....end games played by humans....
soon the opening and the endgame will meet and players will have to
find 2 or 3 middle game moves before the databases completely take over.)

(what are endgame databases....end games played by humans....
soon the opening and the endgame will meet and players will have to
find 2 or 3 middle game moves before the databases completely take over.)[/b]

Believe me Dinc if you play the under 1600 guys you will
be very very unlucky to run into an engine.

They play clean, mean and fast....far too fast.
(check out my blog, I usually only show their games.)

No computers there just loads of juicy blunders to exploit.
(and for me to write about.) 🙂

It's where the fun is and the lads play for the love of it.

I've been on this site long enough to know that wasn't always true.What does that say about the players above 1600?Careful now

It says the chances are of meeting an engine are higher.

Established under 1600 players are OK there are over 14,000 of them.
Played loads of them, never bumped into a box that I know of.

Have faith in the mods.

I have all the faith in the mods.I was here before the birth of the mods,when this site was like gameknot is now.Sometimes I think that they are overrun and can't keep up though.

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Nc6

Had never heard of this opening.So black's last move constitutes the Blachly gambit.
No doubt a ridiculous question but what does black gambit?

toet.

Originally posted by toeternitoe
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Nc6

Had never heard of this opening.So black's last move constitutes the Blachly gambit.
No doubt a ridiculous question but what does black gambit?

toet.