What does this game tell us?

not much , at the moment.

A lot i'd say, if you consider all other games of the same tournament.

a prediction: near the end of the tournament, one of “them” will resign ;)

I don't think I can conclude anything yet. He's met the jamaican posse several times in the past. And in fact he's playing 3 of them here, and 3 of them here.

How does the play of (un)fairplay/5five measure up against the top publicly available amazons programs?

I agree with fatphil unclear at the moment what this say, a resignation would probably be quite telling, both entities play games in which publicly available programs dominate human players but it does yes not say whether they are rival gangs or part of the same gang.

Thinking about it and looking at play in the four in row I find it hard to believe they are not part of the same entity. I do not believe that jamaica posse would give up so many FIR games to an account outside of the posse and so easily.

If someone is still thinking that 5Five is not one of the latest aliases created by our resident cheater, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell. Please contact me as soon as possible. It's used but in very good conditions.

I'd be interested in that bridge you talked about. I mailed you a check for 1,005,000 $; could you just wire me the overpayment back? ;-)

Sorry Aganju you don't have a contract, you need a price and an unambiguous description (it could be any contruction over a body of water in Brooklyn).

Most importantly you need an agreement to terms of the sale.

I'd cancel that check I'm pretty sure if someone sends you an unsolicited check it can be treated as a gift under U.S. law.

There is a difference between belief someone is up to no good and believing they are controlled by the “resident cheat.” Even if 5five was to prove not to be a Jamaicalias it what not effect my believe that the person who created the account is not a fair player.

Interesting. “Both” 5Five and “FaiRPlaY” “beat” everyone else in the championship, then one of the “two” immediately resigned. Who could have seen that coming? I bet that had “never” happened before!

Indeed. As I expect to finish undefeated in that section except for 1st-move resignations against the cheater, and who won't get promoted, I'm not pleased.

I had forgotten to check the links provided by FatPhil.

In nine “games” “against” the vermin resident cheater's nicks, 5Five “won” all nine, eight of them by “resignation.”

Need more proof?

Yes. I'm not convinced, not yet.

It really doesn't matter, what bothers me more is that there are some players I'm 99% sure that use invader/amazong/??? to significantly improve their game quality.

Somehow they are not excluded from the ranking list.

They are clever enough to stop using program having decisive advantage, or they can even resign with well-recognized cheaters. This is sad.

I don't believe that a guy can wake up, and suddenly start playing like a god.

If I had enough time, I could go through his/theirs games and discover what engine and how often is used.

I don't want to accuse anyone, but while playing amazon here i was spending many hours on each game, and the fact that some guys can achieve much better effect within minutes using amazong/invader forced me to stop playing.

what's the reason to play any championships if I know that TUMRAK will win it.

(i'm not accusing anyone, i'm just astonished how strong people can improve just in couple of days)

Statistics for the “Australian†5Five:

Chess

57 wins 0 losses 2 draws

3 wins against VRC (Vermin Resident Cheater) on resignation

Reversi

34 wins 0 losses

1 win against VRC on resignation

Dvonn

2 wins 0 losses

1 win against VRC on resignation

Amazon

31 wins 0 losses

5 wins against VRC on resignation

Four in a row

118 wins 5 losses 1 draw

11 wins against VRC on resignation

Connect6

33 wins 8 losses

3 wins against VRC on resignation

Dots and Boxes

54 wins 11 losses 3 draws

9 wins against VRC on resignation

Lines of Action

29 wins 1 loss

Total

389 games completed

358 wins (92%)

25 losses (6%)

6 draws (2%)

34 games against VRC

33 wins against VRC on resignation (97%)