Hi there Ves. I know this matter has been adressed before, but I donīt
quite understand the outcome of it. Here we have Antal, accused for
cheating, but nothing happens. That would of course be the right way if the
accusations were weak; and these might be seen as such, but they come from
four of the most acknowledged players, and with that, there is no denial to
the fact that they gain weight, rather tremendously. Had it been four
newbies, or one of these four, itīd have been another matter entirely, but,
such is not the case.

The case is that at first, quite a while ago, Antal was banned from isle
(then under the name of Alan, unless my memory fails me) after cheating
against Ricard, later Dracir, known to be an honest and most skillful
player. Then it was a matter of him saying "nice breastplate you picked up
there Ricard", when Ricard had done just that, but from a part of the map
that Antal hadnīt explored and thus shouldnīt be able to see. A month or
two later, Alan, now known as Antal was given a new chance in isle (this
was still before HoMM3 had come out). He seemed to be behaving, and surely
playing, well (22-0 in victories, or something like that...). However, I
was one who had been playing him in some of these games, and I began to
think that he had an unnerving portion of luck, and so began to more
closely examine the saves. What I noted was no hard evidence, just a lot of
circumstantial things, like him neglecting an unguarded gemmine for a
couple of days when playing wizard, to only later go for dragons in a
warlock town which, when neglecting gems, was out of his sight. Like
attacking lots of elves with lots of troops, but all slow, instead of
bringing in troops he had which would surely have been more fitted to fight
shooters, only to have the elves join him; something which couldnīt have
happened with his faster, but otherwise weaker, troops. Like attacking
genies with only green dragons and hydras (this HoMM2; he did have exp.
dipl.) when it would have been very easy to bring some shooters also, in
case they would have attacked instead of join.

Still, these things in themselves I didnīt deem to be enough evidence to go
forward with any accusations, and so let it lay, only naming my suspicions
to a couple of friends. But when Jarcik a while ago told me what Antal had
done in a game they played; "crash", to then replay his turn in an entirely
different matter, so that he could win instead of lose (chat between them
after that is attached), then that was enough. And when we sent this in to
Moc and you yourself it proved that Moc had also seen similar things, but
also chosen to neglect them since it after all could have been luck; not so
with what happened against Jarcik.

And when this mail went out, not a few people had had their own suspicions
about his playing.

Aside from this, we also have the fact that in Russia, Antal is roommate to
another known cheater, Ivan Ivan Ivan, and that they BOTH have been caught
using both one and two different icqīs, mails and nicknames.

All this add together, and then the question is, do we want cheaters in our
tourney?

We say no.

Tamanrasset

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