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In my thousands of games on lichess I've run into a couple of cheaters, but they are very easy to spot. You also get the rating points refunded once they are c
by birken 6y ago
In my thousands of games on lichess I've run into a couple of cheaters, but they are very easy to spot. You also get the rating points refunded once they are caught and removed.
A standard engine is probably somewhere around 3000 strength (better than any human), and the average person who cheats is probably 1000-1800 strength. Within 1-2 games you can easily tell if a 1500 player is magically playing above super-gm strength all the sudden. The player also isn't going to be good enough to not play the computer moves that give them away, because they won't understand them!
- mlyle 6y agoYah, I've played a few games against people that A) played a tricky but objectively weak (memorized) opening hoping I'd fall into traps, B) blundered their whole way around the middle game, hanging pieces like mad, and C) slowed way down and played with 99.9% accuracy through the only, very non-obvious 20 move sequence that could salvage a draw for them. It's pretty obvious. (Often they are slow with the engine, so I flag them during C).