it was once claimed in the 80s that nobody will ever need more than 640KB of RAM; lucky, nobody has yet suggested that we will ever need more than 640 TB of hard drive or cloud space! If so, we may find that even 640 exabytes of hard drive might be insufficient for holding all the video and audio files of each player playing two hours of chess each week at 4NCL!Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:25 pmPeter Hornsby earlier made a valid point. He suggested that players need to be in a position to defend themselves against false accusations and they could do this by setting up a video and audio record of themselves whilst in play. That's less intrusive and probably easier to set up than giving an external arbiter access to home webcams.
I'm sure the engineers of the 50s who developed the first hard drive would have marvelled at the suggestion that their technology would one day go on to holding thousands of videos of chess players playing chess in their rooms, during a pandemic, to ensure that we were absolutely sure no cheating was ever taking place!