Life In 19x19

Bojanic wrote:You guys have too much free time when you are discussing these anonymous stupidities.

Unfortunately, some people credit them.

Uberdude wrote:Now, any of these stories could indeed be true. If this person had contacted the referees or some other party before the game with an account of how Carlo would cheat and then the game did indeed match the story that would be far more valuable as evidence. But by only declaring the hypothesised nature of cheating after the event you can choose the one that fits the game so it's pretty useless without any evidence that the confession actually came from Carlo instead of found independently after the event.

I don't know if this happens in real life (I mean for real serious cases discussed at the court) but could we imagine that we select an third party person (maybe someone from the AGA) then, this person will meet with that anonymous witness (the one who said CM admitted to him).

They could then meet over Skype or WhatApp, that would be fine. And during this interview, that anonymous witness would provide enough evidence (like show a copy of his ID) that could be used to confirm a lot of what he said, and then give more credit to the full story.

At that point, our third player could testify that the anonymous witness is Italian, member of of the Italian Go federation, a team mate of CM... whatever. But would keep that person identity secret.

One could even propose to this anonymous witness a bunch of "potential third person" and he would pick the one he feels he has more confidence with.

A kind of third party proxy testimony

Off topic:

Hi Bill,

EdLee wrote:Off topic:

Hi Bill,

One thing I had learned by then was that if you can be misunderstood online, you will be.

Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way very recently ( no connection to this forum ).
It was epic, and very sad.