Neurolink , how do we stop cheaters now?!?

If we allow people to use whatever they want Chess indeed is dead. This would apply to any similar game as well.

It would be like correspondence chess (the official thing, not the lichess rules), where the better hardware wins, or nowadays nobody wins at all.

I don't understand the horses and cars thing. People still run. And I have never seen someone on a horse or in a car during a marathon or sprint race.

We do have hydraulics, but no weight lifter uses that in a competition.

People are not allowed calculators in a school test when calculation is tested. And they are not allowed to ask ChatGPT in their text-based exams.

I think almost everything in post #10 is complete nonsense.

It is very scary though, as one can easily see that many people might have various "enhancements" implanted for one reason or another, and controlling what is used when and how will be a serious challenge.

Cheating at chess is the least of the problems we will have when Neurolink comes into our daily lives!!!haha

In the 1970s, some schools must of used rulers, calculators, and slide rules for some exams. Open book exams exited in my time. Some times we were allowed to use more than a pencil in the class room.

undergrad.engineering.utoronto.ca/exams/exam-types-permitted-calculators/
www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/slc/learning/exam-types/open-book-exams

Understanding and applying concepts seems more important than testing our memorizing skills. The present chess rules demand 100% integrity. Good luck with the efforts of rating and upholding honesty with modern online chess rules, it's surely not an easy task.

If chess accomplishes these 3 goals, than it will be even better than what it is: (Feature request)
1. Try to keep chess engines out of rated games;
2. Try to keep prize money away from the ones that don't respect the TOS;
3. How about a move speed limit. Time never stops, so zero timed moves should not exist.
3. Protecting the chess members helps when they play with their peer. Even more if they are paired by similar game qualities.

Quick pairing custom rating range helps to protect players. Maybe a member joining date could work in a similar way. The feature could work only after a year on the site. The longer you spend time on the site playing, the more features you could get to filter the type of player you want to play against.

I just won a game on move 8 or 9 saying “cheat detected”. What was he possibly doing and how was he caught?

@Toscani said in #13:
> Quick pairing custom rating range helps to protect players.

How?

@Coxymoron said in #14:
> I just won a game on move 8 or 9 saying “cheat detected”. What was he possibly doing and how was he caught?

Running the Analysis Board in another browser window (including Studies). If any position on it matches the one of an on-going game after move 7, it gets ended with the following message, regardless was it a rated one or not. If it triggered on an account more than 2 times, it gets attributed to "potential engine users" players pool & receives ToS violation mark.

Although, the process itself is rather questionable, because the option to analyse game variant with an engine while it's in progress shouldn't be available in the first place. People can be trying to do that simply out of curiosity, and get themselves auto-blocked.

yes and no, I mean who really cares that hard for that?xD of course there are problems with cheaters, but for them to go that far is kinda nonsense , but even in that case, of technology grows, it grows all together , so checking devices should grow too

A cheater with an implant would be way above our level. Anyone battling it out in the sub-2000 pool is likely to be unaided.

@sausage4mash how about 2 implants?