[rickdale]

Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.

[GhotiFish]

Many people tried that strategy against Kasparov.

No seriously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World

[hristov]

People still do that in chess.com. It is really annoying, because even if you are good enough to beat the computer, playing against a computer is very boring.

[segmondy]

I hate you. I'm sure I played people like you. I like long games but people cheating forced me to play speed which I really hate.

[gohrt]

Isn't the rating system supposed to solve this problem?

Unless people intentionally griefed by creating new low-rating accounts to cheat at.

[dharbin]

I wonder if you played anybody who was also proxying Windows chess? Battle of the computer wits!

[damon_c]

It would be interesting to have the various consumer chess programs play each other a few hundred times to see who wrote the best chess bot.

[shmageggy]

A few hundred? Hundred thousand, maybe. Here are several sites where volunteers run computer chess tournaments 24x7 and publish the resultant rating lists.

http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm

There are more but these are the reliable and longest running that I know of.

[mrgoldenbrown]

This is already a thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championsh...

It's enough of a thing that there was drama and accusations of cheating/plagiarism a few years back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and...

[mbatanian]

There's also a (fictional) movie about this that's pretty interesting; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1