If the goal of playing and winning chess is to rank and see who is the best at playing chess, then yeah, we'll get cheating. This can happen in any competitive

If the goal of playing and winning chess is to rank and see who is the best at playing chess, then yeah, we'll get cheating. This can happen in any competitive sport. If the goal of playing chess is to develop, refine, and challenge one's own decision-making process in which someone can apply those principles elsewhere in life off-the-board, then cheating like this is cheating yourself. If the goal of sports, like chess, is to inspire others in the human civilization on what's possible, to uplift everyone, to reflect the best of humankind, then cheating like this cheats all of us. We're basically saying the best of humankind cheats rather than demonstrating virtue and character through sportsmanship. And lastly, in the domain of war and warfare, there's a proverb that, if you are not cheating, you're not trying hard enough.