As to posting some games, I plan to wait for a month or so. I have a couple of reasons for this, one is to keep an eye on 4 or 5 blatant cheats to see if they last that long and reason 2 is my phone has a cracked screen and it is a royal pia to tag games. I am not sure why but will be home in a month and will use my laptop or desktop
@Billybobobamaesq
On your comment about chess.com and your friend cheating there.
I'll agree with that. Particularly the rapid is swarming with cheaters. More so than the correspondence, I believe. There is a difference between Lichess and chess.com and that is chess.com is a business with its primary goal to make money. Don't believe anything else about how they want to improve the chess community etc....their number one goal is to make money. If they start banning cheaters indiscriminately, then their revenue stream shrinks. Lichess is a non-profit and will ban you without hesitation if they catch you.
On chess.com, I've caught players rated as low as 1100 cheating against me. It's particularly frustrating because I feel I have wasted my time and I know that the site admins will do nothing about it.
Last, my Dad played chess by mail in the 80s and early 90s, and he put it best "All he's doing is buying postcards for his computer."
On your comment about chess.com and your friend cheating there.
I'll agree with that. Particularly the rapid is swarming with cheaters. More so than the correspondence, I believe. There is a difference between Lichess and chess.com and that is chess.com is a business with its primary goal to make money. Don't believe anything else about how they want to improve the chess community etc....their number one goal is to make money. If they start banning cheaters indiscriminately, then their revenue stream shrinks. Lichess is a non-profit and will ban you without hesitation if they catch you.
On chess.com, I've caught players rated as low as 1100 cheating against me. It's particularly frustrating because I feel I have wasted my time and I know that the site admins will do nothing about it.
Last, my Dad played chess by mail in the 80s and early 90s, and he put it best "All he's doing is buying postcards for his computer."
@ezasucanget
don't know, he wrote in the game chat telling me that I'm a cheater and then resigned.
I was so happy as it is an item on my chess bucket list.
@drmrboss that's impressive video.
don't know, he wrote in the game chat telling me that I'm a cheater and then resigned.
I was so happy as it is an item on my chess bucket list.
@drmrboss that's impressive video.
oh ok
There's nothing so immoral about cheating. I admit, I don't do it often, but when a player irks me, well, you can be sure I'll get the ol' engine out and teach him/her a lesson. So, yeah, I admit i'm a regular cheat in the right games. Not against the rules, so they can't do anything to me. Why, only 2 games ago I walloped this guy off the board and only had to use an engine twice. There's no way if you're any good that someone like me, using an engine only when deemed absolutely necessary, should beat you. But the real irony of it is, the only time I was ever banned was after beating a 1700 player (without help) and he must have been in with the mods or something, reported me and I got banned after playing one of my best games ever.
So, personally, I never encourage people to cheat, but there's no harm, when in a very bad situation, consulting an engine. My only advice would be to resist cheating more than once in every 4 games or so, in that way you can raise your rating, beat players 100's of ratings points ahead of you, and not have to face any comeback from the mods. Do everything in moderation, even cheating. X
So, personally, I never encourage people to cheat, but there's no harm, when in a very bad situation, consulting an engine. My only advice would be to resist cheating more than once in every 4 games or so, in that way you can raise your rating, beat players 100's of ratings points ahead of you, and not have to face any comeback from the mods. Do everything in moderation, even cheating. X
@Squalor
I can't tell if this is a troll post or not. Squalor, do you really think that cheating 'in moderation' is perfectly ok? Just to 'teach him/her a lesson' because they 'irked' you? How is using an engine on 'one or two moves' not against the rules? Please enlighten me on your justification. I am genuinely curious.
I can't tell if this is a troll post or not. Squalor, do you really think that cheating 'in moderation' is perfectly ok? Just to 'teach him/her a lesson' because they 'irked' you? How is using an engine on 'one or two moves' not against the rules? Please enlighten me on your justification. I am genuinely curious.
@Microraver Yes, I believe cheating is OK and is just human nature. Everyone cheats. Our favourite sports stars do it, the businesses we use and work for do it, the people we vote into power do it, priests and bishops do it, our family and friends do it. We accept all of that and still love people and still support them and shop at their shops or man their phones, so why is it so terrible to cheat at chess when you're not playing so well? I've no scruples about it... In fact, it's quite the opposite: I'm proud of it. It gives me a kind of thrill knowing a man is thinking his brains out and my next moves cost me no more energy than copying what my engine suggests. If people don't like playing cheats then stick to OTB games. Simple. X
There are certainly some cheaters, I was awarded +20 rating when the system/admins recognized an opponent in a tournament was cheating.
In every sport/game/competitive event you will always find cheaters, Lance Armstrong in cycling, Spanish tennis players, English distance runners and so on.
It's a shame, but it's reality
In every sport/game/competitive event you will always find cheaters, Lance Armstrong in cycling, Spanish tennis players, English distance runners and so on.
It's a shame, but it's reality
@FischersOfMen
Exactly right.
@Squalor
When you say you have 'no scruples about it', you might as well simplify this to read 'I have no scruples.'
Exactly right.
@Squalor
When you say you have 'no scruples about it', you might as well simplify this to read 'I have no scruples.'
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