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Brandal, on Jul 6 2005, 11:25 AM, said:

inquiry, on Mar 14 2005, 10:18 PM, said:

The self-kibitzer seldom sits at the same table with "themselves".

Ben

So a cheater needs 2 computers I guess....

So a cheater probably has to find a table to "self-kib"
that plays in about the same tempo,being on the same
board as the cheater I guess....

There is no such problem for the first board of a round where the hand appears for all players and kibs at the same time in a clocked tourney. Then, the self-kibber can make a screenshot and look at that any time he likes. Of course, if he plays too fast, maybe when he starts to play the second board it is not yet displayed at the table where he is kibbing - but easy for the self-kibber to change tables in such a case. So I consider this a convenient way to cheat if you have 2 computers, and the only way to cheat in an indi event.

But - this would never be an argument for me to ban kibs, as I think only very few are cheating this way, but many like to kib. Instead, we should find cheaters by the strange bidding and play they make which is always successful - kibbers can help to find this.

Karl