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Someone is using my name

Postby Peter Fendrich » 07 Feb 2007, 15:14

I recently got an email from the moderator of playchess.com where someone pretended to have my name and played with Terra.
I don't know what he (the fake Peter Fendrich) said or claimed in my name but I have never used Terra at playchess.com.
That account is deleted by the moderator now.

Yesterday I got another email with this link:
http://rocketchessengines.mylivepage.com/file/241
where Terra 4.0beta was found in my name for download.
I got a copy before it disappeared from that site.

Just to let you know, I never play Terra in public and the last version is 3.4 and there will be no more versions.
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Volker Pittlik » 07 Feb 2007, 17:41

Peter Fendrich wrote:I recently got an email from the moderator of playchess.com where someone pretended to have my name ...


Yesterday I got another email with this link:
...
where Terra 4.0beta was found in my name for download.

...


Do you have the IP of them? If so we can discuss it by mail. In the past similar things happened here too (some fake postings). I still have the logs. Maybe there are similarities.

Volker
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Guenther Simon » 07 Feb 2007, 18:57

Volker Pittlik wrote:
Peter Fendrich wrote:I recently got an email from the moderator of playchess.com where someone pretended to have my name ...


Yesterday I got another email with this link:
...
where Terra 4.0beta was found in my name for download.

...


Do you have the IP of them? If so we can discuss it by mail. In the past similar things happened here too (some fake postings). I still have the logs. Maybe there are similarities.

Volker


I think those are different. They are a huge and quite new
community setting up as much as possible sites with all
kind of fake/renamed/etc. programs.
They also try to infiltrate PlayChess with such accounts
and even tester groups and private authors by offering
'help'...
We had lengthy discussions about some of them and some
of those hacked + renamed + whatever(even commercial)
programs at CCC several times the last weeks.

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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Tony Thomas » 09 Feb 2007, 13:00

It could be another one of those things done by Chinmay Kulkarni.
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Michael Sherwin » 09 Feb 2007, 19:33

Peter Fendrich wrote:I recently got an email from the moderator of playchess.com where someone pretended to have my name and played with Terra.
I don't know what he (the fake Peter Fendrich) said or claimed in my name but I have never used Terra at playchess.com.
That account is deleted by the moderator now.

Yesterday I got another email with this link:
http://rocketchessengines.mylivepage.com/file/241
where Terra 4.0beta was found in my name for download.
I got a copy before it disappeared from that site.

Just to let you know, I never play Terra in public and the last version is 3.4 and there will be no more versions.


Could be a case of split personality! Have you experianced any missing time, blackouts? :D

...

Just joking around, sorry! :twisted:
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Peter Fendrich » 11 Feb 2007, 19:45

:D
I have some blackouts from time to time...
Someone once said that I was the programmer of Ruffian and that P-O, the real one, was a fake.
I was honored of course and now we are talking about split personality! Now I am waiting for the reveal of who is the real programmer of Rybka :wink:
/Peter
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Michael Sherwin » 12 Feb 2007, 02:14

Peter Fendrich wrote::D
I have some blackouts from time to time...
Someone once said that I was the programmer of Ruffian and that P-O, the real one, was a fake.
I was honored of course and now we are talking about split personality! Now I am waiting for the reveal of who is the real programmer of Rybka :wink:
/Peter


Oh come on now, I know who the real author of Rybka is!
It's Tony Thomas. :?: Why else do you think he is always so eager to get his hands on the latest RomiChess? :idea: That's because, he knows where the real threat is from :!:
:D :) :D :) :D :)
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Tony Thomas » 12 Feb 2007, 04:49

Michael Sherwin wrote:
Peter Fendrich wrote::D
I have some blackouts from time to time...
Someone once said that I was the programmer of Ruffian and that P-O, the real one, was a fake.
I was honored of course and now we are talking about split personality! Now I am waiting for the reveal of who is the real programmer of Rybka :wink:
/Peter


Oh come on now, I know who the real author of Rybka is!
It's Tony Thomas. :?: Why else do you think he is always so eager to get his hands on the latest RomiChess? :idea: That's because, he knows where the real threat is from :!:
:D :) :D :) :D :)



What about Vasik? Who is he? If I am him, then that makes him me, I am not that skinny:| :| ? :mrgreen:
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Re: Someone is using my name

Postby Michael Sherwin » 13 Feb 2007, 19:44

Tony Thomas wrote:
Michael Sherwin wrote:
Peter Fendrich wrote::D
I have some blackouts from time to time...
Someone once said that I was the programmer of Ruffian and that P-O, the real one, was a fake.
I was honored of course and now we are talking about split personality! Now I am waiting for the reveal of who is the real programmer of Rybka :wink:
/Peter


Oh come on now, I know who the real author of Rybka is!
It's Tony Thomas. :?: Why else do you think he is always so eager to get his hands on the latest RomiChess? :idea: That's because, he knows where the real threat is from :!:
:D :) :D :) :D :)



What about Vasik? Who is he? If I am him, then that makes him me, I am not that skinny:| :| ? :mrgreen:


You could just be just a Vasik avatar and not even know it! :mrgreen:
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