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Why don't cheaters just use two machines or even just their phone and a laptop? The evidence is often around other processes or browser tabs running on their d
by arecurrence 4y ago
Why don't cheaters just use two machines or even just their phone and a laptop? The evidence is often around other processes or browser tabs running on their device (and in this case also focus loss) but an immediate thought must be to simply use multiple devices.
- slivanes 4y agoYou mostly read about cheaters who get caught.
- olliej 4y agoYeah, I think fail to consider survivor bias to be relevant in cases like this. It's also why there are occasional surges in cheating (or crime, or whatever) after significant instances - subsequent examination then finds other cases because it's now looking for them, but the reality is the cheating (or whatever) was always there and just not noticed.
- paxys 4y agoNo, the evidence is usually around analysis of the moves and how they compare to those generated by chess engines and how the same player has played in the past. The mechanics of the cheating are mostly irrelevant.
- arecurrence 4y agoYou're totally right, some of the articles I looked at focused on tangential causes... whereas analysis of moves compared to decisions by a vastly superior system has got to be the smoking gun. I suppose new algorithms will be designed or trained to account for the user's performance history.
- ActorNightly 4y agoTraditionally chess engine moves were identifiable easily enough by regular players, and chess.com even has algorithms in place to detect this. Thats all going to change now though, and its totally possible to cheat using a second computer with an engine that will be undetectable.