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Subject: Re: About Playing Strength

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 19:16:45 11/28/05

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On November 28, 2005 at 19:00:45, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On November 28, 2005 at 17:32:18, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>
>>>From the beginning of his appearance A.S. was commenting on the troll danger in
>>>such a forum. With that he was realising that even if he would have given a few
>>>details and say about Short, that then trolls could really begin their job
>>>because how could one PROVE online that one were Short even it were the case?
>>>No way to prove it.
>>
>>I'm not going to start a debate on this frankly. I'll just say that proving he
>>was GM Short would be quite easy. Short has some well-known nicks on the servers
>>such as Playchess and ICC. If Short, usinng one of those well-known nicks (top
>>GMs also often have a few 'anonymous' nicks to get some peace) were to declare
>>on the server that he was in fact A.Steen, that would be enough.
>>

>That wouldn't be a proof at all.

Sure it would, unless you think someone else is using his account.

                                      Albert

>We must be content with the knowledge that some
>strong player visited us.



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