3 ms·
Except, chess.com has literal "strength profiles" of every top player. They have enough data to say, hey, this how strong you should be playing, anything outsid
by oldstrangers 4y ago
Except, chess.com has literal "strength profiles" of every top player. They have enough data to say, hey, this how strong you should be playing, anything outside that expected norm might be suspicious, especially over a long enough time period.
It's a similar idea to the 'Biological Passport' seen in sports wherein the biological data of an athlete is stored and you can reference the data points against new test results to see any anomalies.
Creating the "perfect cheating engine" would only be useful for unknown players, and in chess, it's literally impossible to be an unknown and play at a Super GM level (its happened, and of course they were immediately exposed for cheating).
Now, if someone like Hikaru or Magnus decided to just automate themselves at their best in the form of a bot, yeah, it would be nearly impossible to detect them on data alone.
- awb 4y agoI was more thinking that cheaters would create a new account and play at a level that’s good but not uncommon like 1700 or 1800 and work their way up to GM status over a few years, careful to coincide their ascension with the historical pace, win rate, etc. of fellow GMs. That way there’s no anomalies in the data.
- oldstrangers 4y agoTheoretically sure, but without a title they'd never really get to play in any online money tournaments, and to get a title they'd have to play over the board games where cheating would be a lot harder. So it would be a lot of work to be a very strong online only player that doesn't make any real money. As a proof of concept it would be interesting to create an AI that has an undetectable natural progression and human-like play style.