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I don't play chess and have never used chess.com, what's to stop someone playing on their PC and using an app on their phone to prompt their next move? I guess
by sumo89 2y ago
I don't play chess and have never used chess.com, what's to stop someone playing on their PC and using an app on their phone to prompt their next move? I guess their anti cheat can't be like video game DRM but how do you declare someone's moved to be cheating without proving they're using a 3rd party?
- seanhunter 2y agoHere's how they describe it. https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-cheat-detection https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-c... It's a set of statistical methods as far as I can gather, that look at things like timing tells as well as accuracy compared to engine moves and so on. Obviously it's going to be imperfect.
- perihelions 2y agoIn the same way mining a bitcoin proves that you've computed a large number of SHA-256 hashes, playing certain sequences of chess moves is attestation that you've run a large number of chess calculations—that you've solved a certain large system of constraints that has no real solution other than brute force. Naive cheating (that thing you describe) is obvious, because the cheater is running 6 orders of magnitude more computational power than a human and is proving it to you.