I've played 54 blitz and 26 rapid games in che$$.com and in both of them 2 games were detected as cheated... Seriously, like what's the point of using engine... It won't level-up their brain or anything xD
I actually hate playing on chesscom. It's my personal opinion that thier time control and distribution are bad. Hate when it lags while the internet is good and perfect.
@HailstormChessPlayer said in #1:
> Seriously, like what's the point of using engine... It won't level-up their brain or anything xD
You're onto something big.
> Seriously, like what's the point of using engine... It won't level-up their brain or anything xD
You're onto something big.
@FQT said in #2:
> I actually hate playing on chesscom. It's my personal opinion that thier time control and distribution are bad. Hate when it lags while the internet is good and perfect.
that's my lichess ultrabullet experience ...
> I actually hate playing on chesscom. It's my personal opinion that thier time control and distribution are bad. Hate when it lags while the internet is good and perfect.
that's my lichess ultrabullet experience ...
I think they want to impress their gf with the elo :)
It takes a cheater to complain of other cheaters.
There's a lot of imaginary cheating at blitz.
I used to be a member of another, venerable chess website. And there, too, I'd run across some claims that cheating was rampant. It wasn't.
If we play half-way decently, sooner or later somebody will angrily accuse us of being a "bot" or "using an engine" after we win. At this point, it should probably be taken as an unintended compliment.
At least at Lichess (once you learn how) it's pretty easy to have a real engine quickly evaluate a game just played, and check the accuracy of both players. I've done that a huge number of times. I can't remember EVER running across any other-worldly accuracies here on Lichess, although admittedly I don't play grandmasters. For some of them, such accuracies aren't unbelievable.
So if any of my opponents were using an engine, it was a pretty weak one.
Indeed, I've figured out a good name for such an engine. I'd disclose it, but I don't want to get political unnecessarily.
I used to be a member of another, venerable chess website. And there, too, I'd run across some claims that cheating was rampant. It wasn't.
If we play half-way decently, sooner or later somebody will angrily accuse us of being a "bot" or "using an engine" after we win. At this point, it should probably be taken as an unintended compliment.
At least at Lichess (once you learn how) it's pretty easy to have a real engine quickly evaluate a game just played, and check the accuracy of both players. I've done that a huge number of times. I can't remember EVER running across any other-worldly accuracies here on Lichess, although admittedly I don't play grandmasters. For some of them, such accuracies aren't unbelievable.
So if any of my opponents were using an engine, it was a pretty weak one.
Indeed, I've figured out a good name for such an engine. I'd disclose it, but I don't want to get political unnecessarily.
@Noflaps said in #9:
> There's a lot of imaginary cheating at blitz.
It feels imaginary because the hard evidence is on the other side of the wall..but there's also internal evidence. For example, when I get paired with a titled player my whole body relaxes and I get very focused, at least of late, because I'm going to play a real game with a human and I know there won't be any weirdness.
At least, I believe that's the reason.. this is just a sensory thing that happens to me that I'm aware of, rather than trying to persuade myself this person doesn't use an engine. Yet, if we go by your belief, I'm still going to do less than par because there isn't rampant cheating by average users and against CMs, FMs, IMs, the occasional GM, I will face an objectively stronger player.
So then, why has my body and mind learned that against these players I will have more leniency, a chance to impose my kind of game, and thus I relax...?
So I looked at my last bunch of games..just my last 22 games against titled players. The score was 11-11 (no draws). This doesn't prove anything, but it gives evidence that I am perfectly rational to breathe a sigh of relief the moment I am paired with a master, a titled tournament player vs the average stranger on Lichess... which is absurd.
> There's a lot of imaginary cheating at blitz.
It feels imaginary because the hard evidence is on the other side of the wall..but there's also internal evidence. For example, when I get paired with a titled player my whole body relaxes and I get very focused, at least of late, because I'm going to play a real game with a human and I know there won't be any weirdness.
At least, I believe that's the reason.. this is just a sensory thing that happens to me that I'm aware of, rather than trying to persuade myself this person doesn't use an engine. Yet, if we go by your belief, I'm still going to do less than par because there isn't rampant cheating by average users and against CMs, FMs, IMs, the occasional GM, I will face an objectively stronger player.
So then, why has my body and mind learned that against these players I will have more leniency, a chance to impose my kind of game, and thus I relax...?
So I looked at my last bunch of games..just my last 22 games against titled players. The score was 11-11 (no draws). This doesn't prove anything, but it gives evidence that I am perfectly rational to breathe a sigh of relief the moment I am paired with a master, a titled tournament player vs the average stranger on Lichess... which is absurd.