bitcoin chess...

[minerops]

trying to get a feel of interest for low middle or high stakes (BTC) chess tournament(s)...

would need help with security to ensure no bots...

[Anonymous]

I believe bots would be fair game. Humans would just have to evolve past them, haha.

[bustaballs]

Impossible to prevent cheating. Say you go first. I use an external bot, possibly on a different computer, to mimic your move and I just see what the computer's answer is and copy that. I did it a couple of times in Go when I was still a beginner to get back at the sandbaggers pretending to be worse than they really were so they could beat up newbies. But Go is too complex for computers after a certain level so cheating at high levels is impossible without having a better player than you tell you what moves to make.

[minerops]

balls busted lol thanks for the info

[TradersEdgeDice]

If it is a game of Go, let the bots play.  Somebody still has to put up real money for a game.

Use the web of trust GPG authentication method on each a login.

You can ask for it if you plan allowing people to engage in gambling.

Go originated as a gambling game.  Confucius hated it.  I had been banned from KGS multiple times for encouraging gambling and drugs (valium specifically for relaxation and PERFECT clarity in the chuban phase.)

[bustaballs]

How strong are you, Traders?

[minerops]

this is interesting!

if bots were allowed everyone would be betting on bots sort of like a horse race. there would be some damn good games!

[minerops]

ok so here's my contribution to this idea so far

http://74.77.138.186/

the ultimate low stake... playing against a computer while mining for me !

[Trypa]

make it a rapid tournament and you eliminate the bot problem

[TradersEdgeDice]

How strong are you, Traders?

8 kyu on 19 by 19 and a very nasty dan level player at 9 by 9.

Haven't played a serious game in awhile.  Been teaching my 6yo nephew and 3yo niece lately.

It is part of my evil plan to unleash single digit age kyu players on the world.  :-)

[nhodges]

We can just organize the tournaments via webcam. >:]

[minerops]

does rapid tourney really eliminate bot problem??

PM if you are interested in a tourney i will throw a code together and host on my apache server: http://74.77.138.186/

we can organize via this thread to start

[minerops]

We can just organize the tournaments via webcam. >:]

for the human tournaments, yes. soon we'll be half computer anyway so i think we should let the bots play eachother ... and bet on it

[Arctura]

This sounds cool!

Only an amateur at chess, and really low level in Go, but if this happens, I think I might join, at least for the low stakes games.  Might even improve a bit.