Learning about the fact that he had a previous account on chess.com banned for cheating changes the way I perceive this situation quite a lot. His response to getting banned was also weaker than I would've expected. I've been on his discord and he seems to have accepted what happened with relative ease, as if he had been awaiting it at some point.
None of this proves cheating, of course, and I will still give him the benefit of the doubt to some extent, but my previous comment about "losing faith in lichess' cheat detection system" might've been excessive. After all, someone that has already been banned from a competing website and subsequently banned from this one is more likely to have done something fishy than if this had been his first ban.
None of this proves cheating, of course, and I will still give him the benefit of the doubt to some extent, but my previous comment about "losing faith in lichess' cheat detection system" might've been excessive. After all, someone that has already been banned from a competing website and subsequently banned from this one is more likely to have done something fishy than if this had been his first ban.