Players on Flyordie often ask me the question: whether it is worth playing those who tend to use checkers software with the idea of taking advantage over their opponents when playing. My answer is obvious: yes, of course, why not?
I know for sure that on this website there are a lot of non-program players who never or almost never play program players for principle considering them as common cheaters, but are they right? I doubt that.
Firstly, you do not fight for real prizes and money. Therefore, you lose and win nothing real when playing your opponents via the Internet.
Secondly, technological progress has made contemporary checkers programs very strong. Is it good for us, the human beings? Yes, of course!
Staying in, you get an opportunity to play the strongest checkers opponent ever, no matter what kind of opponent is - a checkers program downloaded and installed on your computer or a human playing you with the help of his program on a gaming website. Therefore, you get an opportunity to improve your level of checkers skills.
Thirdly, considering this problem in the broad sense of the word I can see here a fundamental debate on the topic "Man vs. Machine". As for me, I am always ready to fight against checkers programs to prove THE POWER OF THE HUMAN BRAIN.
I am a human and this is the only way given to me by God! I believe all people on Earth who are interested in checkers should follow this way as well. Of course, the above can be applied not only to checkers, but also to all online board games.
Fourthly, statistics of online checkers games including those played on Flyordie inexorably shows the following tendency: from year to year the number of players who tend to use checkers software increases. It is a fact!
Despite the efforts of programmers working on anti-cheating programs all over the world it is quite possible that in the foreseeable future playing with the help of checkers software will become a common thing.
We should be prepared for such a bitter turn of events. The best way to do it and not to be disappointed in the checkers game at all in the near future is to play against checkers programs installed on your computer and program players on the Internet today, right now!
Is it worth playing program players? Everyone solves this question for himself depending primarily on the goals he pursues. In real competitions where money is at stake, players tend to prepare for a particular opponent. It is a fine way of having a try at winning the opponent.
In my opinion this rule does not work properly when playing on the Internet. Online games should just be regarded as a training process thanks to which you can improve checkers skills of your own. From this point of view any opponent can be useful no matter whether he is a program player or a non-program one.
On Flyordie, there are a lot of players who pay attention mostly to their own play, not to the kind of opponents whom they play. I think they follow the right way.