The engine use problem is driving several from the site and needs to be made the #1 issue. Anybody have an ideas!?

- Perhaps know any other chess sites that have figured out to efficiently take care of engine use?
- If a player is banned, can he come back? If so, figure out a way to stop this. Perhaps make it so that to register, one must use an email address that is NOT gmail, yahoo, msn, etc; that way everytime somebody is banned...

i cannot see how engines can ever be 100% banned because:

1. clever engine users can always use them selectively at strategic points to win their important "key" games (for example, to toss a major clan match in their favor, or maybe get a tournament win)

2. idiot engine users are just idiots; who could possible take any pleasure in watching their Fritz play someone they don't know?

3. malicious engine users - those who take joy in messing up the pleasure of others - use their engines and their ratings to mess up tournaments and clans. they are readily identified and booted from RHP - after their damage is done. then they reappear with a new user name to start all over again.

Rec'd: report them, ignore them, feel sorry for them, ID suspicions in public (just post something like, "hey, check out this user's profile" in a public forum, then everyone can see their 1100 rating that zoomed to 2100 that crashed to 900 that's back on the way up)

just my 2 pence

something needs to be done very soon. this sites in danger of osing its integrity otherwise.

i don't think so, but maybe it is up around 2000+. for the rest of us, i think it's still just the best way to play chess except for moving the pieces and watching him fidget and sweat

Yeah - I think its not much of a problem down in the lower bands.

I think Sandbagging is a much worse problem down there.

Engine users are just sad really.

Originally posted by coquette
i don't think so, but maybe it is up around 2000+. for the rest of us, i think it's still just the best way to play chess except for moving the pieces and watching him fidget and sweat

I've post it in another thread and thought would like to repeat here:

"If the site admins are resistent toward banning people from engine use, at least they should set up a system similar to what exists in ICC, and other places, were the caught one is marked with a 'C' (computer) sign. Obviously, tournaments, leagues, and clan challenges would be a no-no for them.

What is not acceptable for the majority of users is allowing engine users to play freely in the site."

Originally posted by Tatarana Crocodilo
I've post it in another thread and thought would like to repeat here:

"If the site admins are resistent toward banning people from engine use, at least they should set up a system similar to what exists in ICC, and other places, were the caught one is marked with a 'C' (computer) sign. Obviously, tournaments, leagues, and clan challenges would ...[text shortened]... acceptable for the majority of users is allowing engine users to play freely in the site."

edited to stay out of this because i don't know anything.

Is there a way to ban IP adresses and not just profiles? That way a banned player can't just make up a new email/profile and rejoin 30 minutes after being banned. I don't think there are too many cases of multiple profiles using the same machine.

Just an idea.

Originally posted by neonpeon41
Is there a way to ban IP adresses and not just profiles? That way a banned player can't just make up a new email/profile and rejoin 30 minutes after being banned.