This is just an idea of mine, no laughing. Maybe to avoid cheating chess websites should require players to use a webcam if playing online, to make sure they don't cheat while they're playing? What do you think?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA

(just kidding)

And for punishment we can cut off their feet...

hahahahahahahaha

[not kidding] 

Do you have shares in Web Cams?

 Arf Arf arf.

If webcams are allowed, how can I, a chess calculating machine, continue to masquerade as a chess playing human ?

ah... please no webcam i look too much like MAGNUS CARLSEN nobody would want to play me!!!

Bodhidharma wrote: If webcams are allowed, how can I, a chess calculating machine, continue to masquerade as a chess playing human ?

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  All it's for is to stop people from cheating! give me a break!(:(:(

   This idea sounds hot.  We can finally get a look at all the sexy chess enthusiasts.

CzarWithinMoons wrote:    This idea sounds hot.  We can finally get a look at all the sexy chess enthusiasts.

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 Yes indeed, no longer would the beautiful chess players of the world be able to hide behind monitors.

This could potentially pose a distraction for me though... 

CzarWithinMoons wrote:    This idea sounds hot.  We can finally get a look at all the sexy chess enthusiasts.

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You really have to stop hounding me with your constant requests for more pictures, Czar. No means NO.

 

CzarWithinMoons wrote:    This idea sounds hot.  We can finally get a look at all the sexy chess enthusiasts.

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 Ah, I get it....we can now all play strip chess !

You invest in web cams. 

I'll invest in human-like automatons, ala The Turk.  The advert will read, "Comes in Barbie and Ken varieties.  You can cheat at web cam chess and look good doing it!" 

No way! Then everyone would be able to tell when I blundered! I have too many expressions when I play, mostly faces like this: 

 

The web cam alone will not stop cheating as you can only see the players face not the computer they are using. This means a chess program could be active and you wouldn't know it.

 

However, using web cams would personalize the game more so then now by allowing people to see and speak to each other as though they were in the same room. I believe another chess server all ready does this with their software program. How popular it is I do not know, but many people still enjoy their anonymity. 

Ya, Creg sorta summed it up. I think it would be kool if this website had this feature, but i sometimes hop on when im eating (hate ppl watching me eat when their not! lol) or when i just got out of the shower with my hair going in all directions, so i wouldn't want to be required.

Would I still be able to play naked?

I believe that organizers of the internet Dos Hermanas Blitz event have hinted at the possibility of webcams so not such a crazy idea. Although for Chess.com this would not be logistically possible.

 Webcam.... Ummmmm... that's a great idea...I like that.

No thanx...

ADK