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How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Monday, 30 November 2009, at 8:10 p.m.

In Response To: How can you tell if you're playing a bot online? (Max Urban)

It is impossible to tell if someone is getting help from a bot...especially if he is smart and doesn't always make the No. 1 play and makes it a point to make some bad plays when it doesn't matter. It is possible to use a bot virtually without any delay, so that isn't a clue either.

I don't believe anyone should play for serious money on line for this reason, and I don't trust major tournament or other competitions on line for this reason either.

I do hope to eventually see some intercollegiate and club competitions on line, but in every case I would want to know that there is an official, or the teacher, monitoring the players so ensure that no bot is being used. In addition to bots people could also cheat simply by getting help from a better player or by using reference guides such as match-equity tables, take point tables, POG tables, etc.

Messages In This Thread

• How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
  Max Urban -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:07 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    misja -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:09 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Stick -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 12:49 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 6:26 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Dan Pelton -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:23 p.m.
        • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
          Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:41 p.m.
          • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
            W Womack -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:57 p.m.
            • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
              Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:34 a.m.
              • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:01 a.m.
                • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                  Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:24 a.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Max Urban -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:01 p.m.
                    • Turing test
                      rod -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:55 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 4:20 p.m.
                        • Turing test
                          Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 5:06 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:28 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Dave -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
                            • Turing test
                              Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 8:01 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 6:06 a.m.
                        • Turing test
                          pierrez -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:07 a.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:42 p.m.
                            • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG? *NM*
                              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 5:24 p.m.
                              • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG?
                                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 7:47 p.m.
                        • Turing test - easy to tell
                          rod -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 5:53 p.m.
                        • Very human indeed!
                          Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 11:44 p.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:36 p.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 8:10 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Dave Ranson -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:10 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 2:39 p.m.
  • Here's one way
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:54 a.m.
    • Here's one way
      Frank Berger -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:17 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:28 p.m.
    • Here's one way
      Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:59 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:19 p.m.
        • Here's one way
          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:29 p.m.