Cheats, cronyism and Frankenstein's Monster.

I want to share the following article:
www.chess.com/blog/Eilyisum/my-journey-to-2700-blitz-and-a-plea-to-chesscom
I believe that Super GMs who study chess very seriously should be able to beat engines. Furthermore, the current #10 in the world super GM famously does not have seconds and trains exclusively with engines. If Super GMs remember the correct engine responses, their moves should be indistinguishable to engines moves. Obviously they also know in which positions the engines do not play well. We will see if he wins the US Championship, stays #10 in the world after the tournament ends and, most importantly, whether he can follow all the tournament rules such as no note taking rule, and the touch move rule. We will all see how many times the arbiters will forfeit him in this year's US championship for inability to follow the rules (some may also call it cheating).
Lichess has recently made a mistake introducing cash awards to winners of some tournaments. This provides an incentive for people to win at all cost. Some may actually succeed in cheating without getting caught especially if they invest money in the technology.

Cheating happens everywhere,we are just lucky that we have the freedom to discuss in this site.you know what I mean.

cheaters are good

Cheaters are part of the fun. If cheaters upset you, you're taking it too seriously.

"In order to save the village, we had to destroy it..."

- U.S. Army, referring to the bombing of Ben Tre, Vietnam

I hope one recognises the madness of the above statement.

Credit Cards? Photo-Id's?

The CIA (Cheater Investigation Association, really ?!?) should take a chill pill, and just enjoy the chess at this fantastic site :)

If you lose to an engine, either get over it, or work out a way to get better than an engine. All other so called 'measures' are as ridiculous as the US Army statement.

I dont care about cheaters. The most important thing for me is to avoid getting insulted. On FICS people are rude and mods too. On chess.com a stupid american even treatened my life. On lichess I dont have this kind of problems and the reporting tool is easy to use.
And of course we can play all these exciting alternative chess forms!
Keep on with the good work lichess.org! Love

@Tangelo777:

A Super-GM is not a Super-Human.

No human player is able to beat an engine in fast time controls (maybe sometimes a draw in long time controls is possible).

The article you linked is about how to beat usual engine players because they are using too much time per move. So its about beating primitive cheaters and not beating engines... important difference I would say.

I am wondering that there are always some people claiming that a human should learn to beat engines. Thats either naive or just some kind of cheating justification.

Cheating is cheating is cheating...

Best wishes
Nada

What is the problem with cheaters ?

@Frapator:

the problem is that they are cheating...

By the way: A nice example of how to finish off a blatant cheater nicely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlxHusHfpck

But this is of course an exception. Chessexplained lost all other games I know against blatant cheaters.

Best wishes
Nada

#49 That video made my day :D