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How does lichess find cheaters

Does lichess do the analysis to find the cheaters? Many players have 0 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes and 0 blunders although they are low rated. Still they are not banned. Even I had 0,0,0 in one game but I did not cheat, so how does lichess exactly detect cheaters?
Secret recipe. They don't want to reveal this so others can't modify the way they cheat the system.
Part of it might involve checking what is running on your computer as you are playing, although for that you will often see "cheat detected" and lose the game on the spot. That doesn't generally lead to a marked account, nor mean you definitely cheated but there was an engine running on your computer with a position that matched the game you are playing.

Otherwise it's generally an analysis of where you played accurate moves, how many in a row, how long you took over them, etc. Many cheats don't cheat every game or every move, but just a few moves in the middle-game to swing it in their favour. They are harded to detect but they get caught all the time.
Why would lichess tell you the process of catching cheaters?
It's like the police telling the thieves on how they are gonna catch the latter, so that they can prepare themselves and make new plans.

{Not a good example, but (hopefully) you get the point}
It's not just having a 0/0/0 game on occasion.

It's about having MANY such games, high matching of moves with engine suggestions, constant moving times, playing far stronger than your nominal level etc
@earlpurple I have seen Lichess mods say that "cheat detected" is much smarter and more specific than that. They say it's basically impossible to trigger by accident.
I am not a lichess mod so I can't confirm either way.
This is going to show that I am older than most people on Lichess...

Lichess finds cheaters by playing the song "Whip it" by Devo. Cheat detected? Whip it good!

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