"Cheaters don't care about winning and losing, but about dominating. They have to make everyone feel inferior; it isn't enough to win. "
"Cheaters don't care! Cheaters don't care that some bright kid may get crushed by a cheater thus destroying what may have been the next Fischer, but now he gave it up for Quake III. Kids play in what they can see improvement - but will abandon a skill if it seems they do not have a chance. There is no greater crime then to crush a young mind and the delicate ego before it blossoms!"
"Hi there, I have read your page about cheaters. It is true that a lot
of the players on ICSes are using chess
programs for their games. All the things you wrote about "they don't care" is pretty true.
I'm a 2200 uscf player and I was tricked many times by people who cheated on me, so I decided to
play with a chess program too.(...)"
"My name is *censored* and I'm an admin on VOG. I fought and fight cheaters all over arround with good results. If I can help you in something, only let me know and go ahead with your great work.
Congratulations"
"We hate cheaters and do our best to prevent their comfortable
life at our club.(...) Thank you for your very important job."
Eugene Guenkine, Top Administrator, Averbakh Chess Club (www.interchess.com) Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:08:14
When (C)heaters play honest members, they don't care. They don't care about the amount of study time and hard work you invested to increase your level of play and ICS rating. They don't care about the money you spend monthly on your ISP or the time you spend on your ICS. They don't care about your reasons for joining an ICS. They don't care about your will to improve, your legitimate desire to learn. They don't care if you've set yourself goals through which you motivate your will to improve and learn. They don't care about your beliefs in good and sound sportsmanship ethics. They don't care about your finger/profile notes. They don't care about fairness, fair-play issues or other futile, rubbish, stupid discussions such as takebacks or mouseslips. For them, your very own existence as a chess player is nothing more than a 4 digit string of characters on their monitor screen.
They don't care if you can be fooled easily or not. While you're greeting them at the beginning of the first game with a nice "Hello from city/country; let's have a good game!", they are setting board, colors and inputting time controls into their chess program. After winning games and winning rating points from you, they will tell you a stupid, nonsensical auto-alias-"tks" or they might "Thanks for the games" with a little smiley :) ... and they reset/"new game" their chess program looking for a next victim. They don't care if you're suspicious of them or disgusted after you've played them since there are a lot of members on your ICS to "play" with and they can "move" along after you, to someone else. So they don't care if you put them in your noplay list or censor list. They don't care if after a few games you're no longer sure/confident in yourself about some of your favorite openings, the way you handle some of your opening lines or if you're no longer confident in your tactical awareness.
They feel (and know) they're powerful and strong with their (C)-toy. They want to feel what it's like to play at an IM or GM level in blitz games. They are curious, intrigued and fascinated by matches involving strong GMs and mighty chess programs, by human intelligence vs fast hardware. Some of them want to know if the chess program they bought can do the same vs titled members on your ICS: they believe that such curiosity is worth some of the money they spent on buying a chess program.
They do "care" about playing a titled member, say an IM or a GM. They want to know if
their chess program can handle a titled member, how well their chess program will handle such a
promising/enticing scalp. They "care" about playing those rated higher than themselves. They enjoy seeing a titled member having difficulties in delicate positions, seeing a
titled member or high rated member having time pressure. They fantasize on the sweat and adrenaline a
titled member is having in difficult positions with/without
time pressure in a, say, r 5 0 game vs
them. They enjoy following on their (C)omputer program the increasing ply depth and the evaluation score as it slowly and steadily increases to their advantage. They are very curious about the evaluation score
during a game even if they themselves have limited chess knowledge. They've a sadistical curiosity when they see the score evaluation slowly but steadily increasing in a game vs a titled member or when they see their chess program get out of tactical skirmishes/brawls with a decisive advantage. They're satisfied and relieved when they see on their screen a notification that their opponent got flagged or resigned. They love to see the server notifying them of their new increased rating after each won game.
They enjoy receiving tells from weaker rated members saying how well they played the last game, how strong they are in tactics, how amazingly they finished off that previous opponent. They enjoy receiving tells saying: "You are strong", "well played", etc... from members. They enjoy nourishing and polishing their ICS chess-power image and status among their +notified ICS friends with ordinary lies, disinformation and forged stories about how long they've been playing, which chess teacher gave them lessons, at which young age they learned to play, etc... They care about the respect and politeness they deserve from weaker members.
For (C)heaters, cheating has become a normal part of the "fun" of enjoying and playing
chess on an Internet Chess Server.
They don't care about helpfiles on abuse, on etiquette or about an ICS user agreement, its policies and rules. They don't care about how many people they fooled, how many people they lied to, how many people they abused. For them, cheating is just an overall amazing, intriguing and fascinating FUN! experience of enjoying and playing chess, of fooling people and achieving chess prestige. For them, making in broad daylight a mockery of all these helpfiles, fair-play issues is just an incidental part of the overall fun of cheating. For (C)heaters, cheating is such a little childish, trite "crime": no big deal at all!
I'll never forget 2 obnoxious, jerk (C)heaters that I met on an ICS. The first one told me after the game: "Gotcha!". One week later, that ICS caught him and he was +(C)ed. Guess who complained about him... 10 months afterwards this same (C)heater, under another handle, was again +(C)ed.
The 2nd jerk (C)heater I met was telling me during the game: "I know this opening better than you", "You are weak", "I own you now", etc... One month later, that ICS caught him.
(C)heaters simply just don't care about you, no matter if you're a titled member, an honest playing member, a legitimate (C) operator. They don't care about the huge damage (global and constant negative atmosphere of suspicions, accelerated pace of time controls to avoid them) they've done and are doing to all ICSes.
Maybe it's time you start to "care" about them.
