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To be clear online chess legitimately has a cheating problem. I think it has gotten better but according to chess.com there have been a number of Grandmasters i
by neaden 4y ago
To be clear online chess legitimately has a cheating problem. I think it has gotten better but according to chess.com there have been a number of Grandmasters including some of the top 100 players in the world who have cheated on the site and admitted it. Cheating in over the board chess seems to be much less common but everyone realizes it is possible and if done well would be challenging to catch. I think this has primed the field for people to be suspicious.
- sakras 4y agoI’m a bit skeptical of this figure that chess grandmasters have admitted it. From what I understand, if chess.com accused you of cheating, they tell you “you have 3 days to admit it or be banned”. So in the face of that, of course they’re going to admit to cheating (since admitting it leads to no other repercussions). To me it seems like a way for the anticheat team to farm credibility. This was my impression based on Maxim Dlugy’s statement https://sites.google.com/view/gmdlugystatement/home https://sites.google.com/view/gmdlugystatement/home
- dane-pgp 4y ago> To be clear online chess legitimately has a cheating problem. Depending on how strict we want to be, Magnus himself has been caught "cheating" in online chess games before too: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/xkn7ln/why_does_nobody_talk_about_magnus_cheating_online/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/xkn7ln/why_does_nobo...