Cheating is increasing significantly in Classical and Rapid

@Hitsugaya Yeah, you're probably right.

Hundreds of thousands of accounts are banned monthly due to cheating, on this server and others. Why? Because people play chess like a video game. They don't give a s**t about chess, they want to win. If one account is banned they open a new one, and the circle never ends. Others (even titled players cheat) seek easy victories and recognition as a way to improve their ratings.

Be that as it may, online chess server ratings mean nothing. Human behavior is very disappointing.

Cheaters, switch-laggers, and sandbaggers are everywhere. They're a plague and must be eradicated (from chess servers).

Unfortunately, that won't ever happen.

And yes, for your information, on Lichess there're thousands of cheaters, cheating at this precise moment.

@midnightmusicnetwork said in #11:

You do realize the OP is rated at around 2000? So, this is not him making stupid blunders, easy trade down games, and playing into obvious traps, or memorized attacks.

I've played against quite a few players rated around 2000 now, and they are definitely not immune to stupid blunders. It's just that I usually make more of them (or the last one).

@Hedgehog1963 said in #8:

Not everyone who beats you at chess is cheating.

Wait - what? LOL.

I've had a number of games against lower rated opponents who seemed to be playing too well. But when I checked the game later, I found out it was just that I was playing especially poorly. Probably guilty of not taking the opponent seriously enough.

Here is another one. 6 Centipawn loss, and 99% accuracy over 40+ moves. Yeah... here comes the 1100 rated players "JuSt GiT GoOd BrUh". "ThIs Is ThEoRy BrUh".

@Hitsugaya said in #27:

This could very EASILY not be cheating so basically the guy plays an opening correctly, trade pieces, take a free pawn and improve his rook to annoy white. It's all moves that a 2000 could find.

The second game I agree it's a lot more complex but the opponent has already been banned so the system is working. The issue is that accuracy alone is not a good indicator.

Explain Ng4

@SeanRR said in #1:

I know this has probably been said by other users, but I do feel that cheating has increased recently in Classical and Rapid mode. Sadly, it's not just new accounts who cheat and get quickly banned.

I've observed that some players with 2000 rating and 8 years on Lichess played many games with 99% accuracy and less than 10 average centipawn loss against 1900-2000 players. The most plausible explanation here is cheating.

My hypothesis is that rising global inflation and political instability have made people more selfish and desperate, therefore they cheat against strangers online to make up with their failure in real life.
Just because somebody beat you with 99% accuracy does not mean they are cheating or even likely to be cheating. You are not a chess cheater expert.

@midnightmusicnetwork said in #28:

Explain Ng4

Get rid of white good and outposted Ne5 knight?

@Hitsugaya said in #30:

Get rid of white good and outposted Ne5 knight?

Most people would put a rook on an open file first instead of attacking the knight on e5 so soon. Explain the rest of the continuation. Such as e5, when he should be putting rooks on open files. Then the bishop attack on the rook, and then the retreat to c4. Why do all that when a human who plays at 2000 strength would more than likely put a rook on the D file?

@midnightmusicnetwork said in #31:

Most people would put a rook on an open file first instead of attacking the knight on e5 so soon. Explain the rest of the continuation. Such as e5, when he should be putting rooks on open files. Then the bishop attack on the rook, and then the retreat to c4. Why do all that when a human who plays at 2000 strength would more than likely put a rook on the D file?

Because he wanted to? Yes putting the rook on the open file is the easiest move but some people just like to attack more, the accuracy would have been the same if he moved the rook, the engine even prefers that.

e5 is part of the opening and the bishop attack makes sense since he just moved his bishop the move prior and put it in an inferior unprotected square, so he thought "how do I improve my bishop now, can't let it hang here". And attacked the f1 rook to reposition with tempo.
Anyone could have played that.