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This comment has strong "why does <your field> need a journal" vibes... Online chess areas like lichess and chess.com absolutely have automated cheat detection

This comment has strong "why does <your field> need a journal" vibes... Online chess areas like lichess and chess.com absolutely have automated cheat detection which they consider along with with reports in automated banning of accounts. They consider not just whether the player is playing the excellent moves (something common at any level and very common at high levels), but also how a deep search is needed to evaluate that move, whether other obvious moves were available, how long was taken to play the move, if the position is common, etc. When these serial cheaters are banned, the sites even refund rating points to everyone who lost to them. However, the issue of isolated cheating incidents is still a big deal, even if the serial obvious cheaters can be detected.

specialist 6y ago
Thanks. I didn't ddg hard enough. r/chess tells me part of lichess' cheat detection is similar to my hunch. So maybe my only novel suggestion is running lichess (or equiv) live in parallel. Something livestream viewers could also help with. And I hope someone's replaying historical games. "how a deep search is needed to evaluate" Of course. Obvious now that you mention it. I assumed different programs would make different suggestions. So overseers would want to run a few programs to see if any matched the player's gameplay, style, etc. Probably the last time I played chess was on an IBM PC XT. The quality of misc game engines varied widely. Of course there's probably been a convergence since.