Chess cheating - Result from survey among players at chess.com, lichess.org and reddit chess forum • page 1/2 • General Chess Discussion • lichess.org

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LittleJennyWren

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:O

Hermann_Brunner

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My repertoie consists of very few uncommon openings. A few years ago I analysed them all using a computer and memorized the most frequently played lines up to 12-15 moves. Am I a cheater?

No.

One question I'd like to know from this survey is how does the data from chess.com compares to lichess

ChessActics

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lichess.org/team/team-of-chess-actics-channel my team please join it

MrBongcloud edited

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@Hermann_Brunner No, that's memorization, just like how all the GMs do.

Hermann_Brunner

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@MrBongcloud
Today during a ranked game after move 9 the message "cheat detected" appeared and I won. My opponent played really well despite he chose suboptimal opening line. I was playing the best moves according to my own home analysis which I memorised years ago. I'm still wondering why he was identified as the cheater and not me or both of us.

@MrBongcloud Today during a ranked game after move 9 the message "cheat detected" appeared and I won. My opponent played really well despite he chose suboptimal opening line. I was playing the best moves according to my own home analysis which I memorised years ago. I'm still wondering why he was identified as the cheater and not me or both of us.

Great!!!

@Hermann_Brunner If you memorized it long ago (or BEFORE a game), you are using your brain and therefore are not cheating. On the other hand, if you study lines with the computer every few moves in a correspondence game, that's cheating because you are using a computer mid-game.

It all depends on when you learn/analyze the lines. If you learn/analyze before the game, then you don't know what to expect and have memorized the lines, so it is not cheating. Analyzing using the computer midgame is cheating (some consider using the opening book cheating while others don't, but not reading chess books is really hard to enforce, so people just don't care. A separate analysis board with no computer usage, along with an opening book, is OK on lichess) because you learn and expect as you play.

@Hermann_Brunner If you memorized it long ago (or BEFORE a game), you are using your brain and therefore are not cheating. On the other hand, if you study lines with the computer every few moves in a correspondence game, that's cheating because you are using a computer mid-game. It all depends on when you learn/analyze the lines. If you learn/analyze before the game, then you don't know what to expect and have memorized the lines, so it is not cheating. Analyzing using the computer midgame is cheating (some consider using the opening book cheating while others don't, but not reading chess books is really hard to enforce, so people just don't care. A separate analysis board with no computer usage, along with an opening book, is OK on lichess) because you learn and expect as you play.