Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

Re:Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheate... by jerf on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:43AM (#33095490)

Since chess.com ranks similar players against each other, and I'm not planning on tournament play at all, I actually wouldn't care in the slightest if I played someone who was consistently cheating. That would mean I'm playing a hybrid human/computer instead of a pure human, but I'd still be playing someone with a consistent ranking and it would still in some sense be a fair fight.

I would be upset if someone was inconsistently cheating, and so I'm playing someone nominally at 1400 but for this game they're actually playing 2100.

Of course for true tournament play, the rules are the rules, whatever they may be, and they must be followed for it to have any meaning.

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Re:Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheate... by Qub3d on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:47PM (#33099682)

This is actually what lichess does - if it flags you as a cheater, you are silently paired against other cheaters.

They have almost the entirety of the lichess system source code publicly available, but from what I can gather they have a private set of weights on inputs - I assume to prevent cheaters from fully reverse-engineering the system.

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