Not, that I feel that there are a lot cheaters on this website. The others keep writing it and up till now I got refunded 3 times only. Only once I felt being cheated in the past years of lichess. But there are more concerned people and this is directed to their purposes.
And also not, that I think that I would cheat or want to promote cheating by writing this topic. Still. I have a strange thought what might turn out to be a very good idea and I also want to share it with you. Could also be total rubbish. Not sure if it helps. I write. You judge.
What I want to propose is actually a cheating function. The feature would work like a live computer analysis. Their own computer evaluates the x best moves in each situation in a live game. (This can be done analysing some fixed depth or time) and the player can choose among those moves and make it. Like a professional cheating program.
The players will then be labled as it was up til now. "Uses a machine" or something and prevent people with the function enabled to participate in turnaments. They moreover get their own turnaments where everyone can join, even those who dont have activated the function. One could call that "machine turnament"
Lets come to the possible advantages. And I will edit this post and add further advantages and disadvantages by you.
1.) There is a number >0 of persons who would use this feature instead of cheating undetected. People who think that they just cheat because they want a live analysis of their games to improve learning. Also if I dont think that this would work particualarly well there are some people thinking that (at least I know of some) These people would not be in turnaments anymore. -> This in fact would reduce the cheating behaviour in normal turnaments.
2.) Machine turnaments could actually turn out to be interesting for some cheater and for non-cheaters. People who feel that they dont have chances now can win when they use the right engine parameters. Also Non cheaters could brag on how far they got without using machines in this machine turnament. Nakamura already does this by playing the best machines and actually beating them some times.
3.) It would take out the wind for the trolls. "XY is a cheater" would not necessarily be an insult anymore and I could bet that less annoying stuff like that would appear in turnament chats.
possible disadvantages:
1.) Of course it might happen that this turns out to actually promote further cheating behaviour or damage the image of this site. But like in 2.) and 3.) in the advantages section I dont know if that is true
Further disadvantages? Your thoughts?
And also not, that I think that I would cheat or want to promote cheating by writing this topic. Still. I have a strange thought what might turn out to be a very good idea and I also want to share it with you. Could also be total rubbish. Not sure if it helps. I write. You judge.
What I want to propose is actually a cheating function. The feature would work like a live computer analysis. Their own computer evaluates the x best moves in each situation in a live game. (This can be done analysing some fixed depth or time) and the player can choose among those moves and make it. Like a professional cheating program.
The players will then be labled as it was up til now. "Uses a machine" or something and prevent people with the function enabled to participate in turnaments. They moreover get their own turnaments where everyone can join, even those who dont have activated the function. One could call that "machine turnament"
Lets come to the possible advantages. And I will edit this post and add further advantages and disadvantages by you.
1.) There is a number >0 of persons who would use this feature instead of cheating undetected. People who think that they just cheat because they want a live analysis of their games to improve learning. Also if I dont think that this would work particualarly well there are some people thinking that (at least I know of some) These people would not be in turnaments anymore. -> This in fact would reduce the cheating behaviour in normal turnaments.
2.) Machine turnaments could actually turn out to be interesting for some cheater and for non-cheaters. People who feel that they dont have chances now can win when they use the right engine parameters. Also Non cheaters could brag on how far they got without using machines in this machine turnament. Nakamura already does this by playing the best machines and actually beating them some times.
3.) It would take out the wind for the trolls. "XY is a cheater" would not necessarily be an insult anymore and I could bet that less annoying stuff like that would appear in turnament chats.
possible disadvantages:
1.) Of course it might happen that this turns out to actually promote further cheating behaviour or damage the image of this site. But like in 2.) and 3.) in the advantages section I dont know if that is true
Further disadvantages? Your thoughts?
