Re:Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second...
by cwillu on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:10AM
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While true in the extreme case, other comments have made the point that at this level, cheating can consist of very few bits of information: simply getting a “this particular move is very important” indication is enough to cause an upset; this is very much in line with your “still has to play the game” as you still have to be a strong enough player to figure out why this particular move is important.
I suppose there are examples of athletes in other sports who've been caught cheating and not kicked out of the sport. But one way in which those examples are different than this one is that in online chess, cheating could mean essentially letting a computer do everything for you. In other sports, for example baseball, a player who takes performance enhancers still has to play the game. Online chess allows for complete cheating, in other words.