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Re:Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes by sgjohnson on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:48AM (#32733355)
The problem with this approach is that you'd still need to be able to correctly identify those critical moments in the game, and a single move won't help you. You need the entire line.

Which would still require a considerable skill. If you can't figure out why a single move is brilliant, you won't be able to find the entire line.

If stockfish tells you the entire line, and the opponent plays something that wasn't included in stockfish's line (because it's worse), you're also going to be at a loss.

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Re:Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes by ciphol on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:26AM (#32733636)
If you're playing Magnus Carlsen, you're probably pretty skilled to begin with.
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Re:Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes by tstrimple on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:53AM (#32752284)
The best cheaters are also highly skilled. This is true in online competitive games as well. Very rarely do these folks just leave cheats on all the time. That's blatant and easy to ban. But toggling it on at critical moments will give you those "clutch" wins which genuinely happen sometimes, but makes them much more reliable.
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