Follow up on recent rating changes and possible wide bot use

He’s not saying the rating is the issue, he’s saying there is some remarkably shady play everywhere and is using his rating to outline the problem... cheating here or on chess.com, it’s just a sad epidemic that makes no sense. Why anyone would cheat to beat Joe Blow on the other side of the planet is beyond me. I definitely get mad when I play a good game and lose, we all do. But when I look at the analysis and it’s such an obvious cheat it’s just deflating. Sure, good games happen, really good games happen. But playing a near perfect one using less than ten seconds of a blitz game is beyond me. That’s not human. Can’t be.

Reporting cheaters is pointless as well, neither here nor chess.com, no matter what they do, is ever going to stop it. Check out Dubov’s interview on the subject of online cheating, It’s time to just accept it and move on. I’m sure if cheating persists and escalates, the way it undoubtably is, I’ll like just quit the game. What’s the point of improving when, no matter how hard you work and dedicate to the game, you’re never going to beat a computer.

Because Danny R. At chess.com is set on owning the 500+ year old game, I refuse to play there. So this is my last refuge. Good luck out there.

@Cedur216 said in #29:

Man, this lag switching video is hard to watch. Great comeback by Tang.

Yeah, it feels so utterly stupid watching someone try to get such an unfair advantage for something like ultrabullet... Anyway, most people would not bother to waste their time with that fortunately

@McNever said in #31:

He’s not saying the rating is the issue, he’s saying there is some remarkably shady play everywhere and is using his rating to outline the problem... cheating here or on chess.com, it’s just a sad epidemic that makes no sense. Why anyone would cheat to beat Joe Blow on the other side of the planet is beyond me. I definitely get mad when I play a good game and lose, we all do. But when I look at the analysis and it’s such an obvious cheat it’s just deflating. Sure, good games happen, really good games happen. But playing a near perfect one using less than ten seconds of a blitz game is beyond me. That’s not human. Can’t be.

Reporting cheaters is pointless as well, neither here nor chess.com, no matter what they do, is ever going to stop it. Check out Dubov’s interview on the subject of online cheating, It’s time to just accept it and move on. I’m sure if cheating persists and escalates, the way it undoubtably is, I’ll like just quit the game. What’s the point of improving when, no matter how hard you work and dedicate to the game, you’re never going to beat a computer.

Because Danny R. At chess.com is set on owning the 500+ year old game, I refuse to play there. So this is my last refuge. Good luck out there.

My recommendation is to not think about it. Report and forget it. It will not happen that often, and it will not help to get mad. What I hope is that more developers will decide to contribute to lichess cheat detection (open source) algorithm. THAT would actually be USEFUL.