Shared Accounts in Antichess

@Toadofsky

Educational, coaching shared accounts I do not think anybody has a complaint with. Streaming accounts as the Chess Brah's a good example. You are right, the ToA's need to updated in the Q@A as the answers given are way out of date and lead to confusion.

@mdinnerspace
"My perception is that it appears different standards apply for variants. It appears (may well be wrong), but this is how it seems.
Sharing accounts, rating manipulation, sandbagging, artificially increasing ratings by playing only a certain group of players don't seem to be enforced as tightly as Standard Chess. Even engine use, it seems a blind eye is turned.
Maybe a mod would like to clarify. It is a perception that a few have observed, especially the "shared accounts". Do policies differ for variants?"

WOW. I never thought I'd see a post like this from you.
Bravo. I'm glad I am not the only one who thought this was a bit odd.

First off: I can confirm they do review crazyhouse.
I've made a few reports here and there on Crazyhouse and 75%+ of the reports have been confirmed back with the user being marked as a engine.

But, never seen em on RK or Anti.
I've made countless reports on 0/0/0 games on anti without one single person getting flagged. Yes, yes; I realize 0/0/0 on anti is pretty common; as so many openings can lead to instant
0-0-0defeat (d3 is a easy example that basically anyone can learn)

I am referring to games I go 1/0/0 20-40 centi and lose 0/0/0 15 or less centi against a user with a account thats 1 day old :P

Sure; some of them are gonna be alts. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. Simply by probability at least one of my reports should of resulted in a engine mark.

Anywho, Would love to hear a mod on this one too.

Do you review Anti reports??

I saw many atomic players getting banned.
They review Atomics.

Yes, as a long time antichess player I can confirm that most of the engine users get caught. Problem is that especally lower rated players don't realize that they are playing against one when they do.

Regardless of whether or not the Q&A is outdated, that post on sharing accounts makes many good points which are still valid. When and why was it changed to allow team accounts? And even if they are permitted, returning to the original point, a player should not have 3 different accounts in the top 5.

Wow. I never realized this. Decided to take a peek at the top 100 in anti.

There are 2 people I know for sure are in there twice. And then one more thats in there 3 times.

I thought this didnt happen? :l=

@Playitsmart I have been for quite a long time in antichess community and it is true that there are many people who are sharing accounts.Obviously,nobody cheats/sandbags in them since it would lead to a ban.And...if we talk about top players then yeah(only top players of antichess make shared accounts).I'm going to keep a strong eye on antichess community pretty much and if there is something new,i will let you know in this forum.

However,some people aren't using neither chess computer assistance,sandbagging,shared accounts etc..I think that shared account problem can be easily solved by moderators.

Thank you @risky-chess . Since almost all accounts I had an eye on are closed now I think the problem is solved for the moment.