I have reported a user for suspected cheating twice now.
Even though that person has not been punished yet, I want to know the opinion of people from this community, whether they agree or disagree with my suspicion.
There are several key features / signs that can tell whether a player is cheating or not:
* A user takes approximately the same time for every move (a clear indicator for a cheater in cases when the move is easy or forced) - the reason behind that is cheaters need to switch to the engine and enter the next move, which usually takes around 3-5 seconds
* A user makes unnatural moves; a move that a human typically would not make - the reason behind that is that those moves avoid mistakes/inaccuracies according to the engine, calculating many moves ahead
* A user has a very high success rate and thus the ELO progress jumps rapidly towards IM/GM level
Now I present you a rapid progress of this user:
And here are the move times of some of his games (left column: as black, right column: as white):
In my opinion, the images clearly show the progress & games of a cheater:
* a very rapid progress, after he chose to cheat because he just could not get above ~1200 score for several weeks - or maybe he learned how to play so much better within a very short time frame (lets say 1 week)?
* very similar move times patterns: At first, very natural move times, but then he takes a very long time (1 minute or more at blitz) to set up the game in an engine, then uses the same amount of time for every move. It does not matter what type of moves they are: very complex or very easy/forced moves: all of them take the same amount of time.
So, am I correct to assume this guy is a cheater, or are you of different opinion?
Note that most of the games look like this, these are NOT a manual selection by searching the "correct" ones out of 100s of games.
Even though that person has not been punished yet, I want to know the opinion of people from this community, whether they agree or disagree with my suspicion.
There are several key features / signs that can tell whether a player is cheating or not:
* A user takes approximately the same time for every move (a clear indicator for a cheater in cases when the move is easy or forced) - the reason behind that is cheaters need to switch to the engine and enter the next move, which usually takes around 3-5 seconds
* A user makes unnatural moves; a move that a human typically would not make - the reason behind that is that those moves avoid mistakes/inaccuracies according to the engine, calculating many moves ahead
* A user has a very high success rate and thus the ELO progress jumps rapidly towards IM/GM level
Now I present you a rapid progress of this user:
And here are the move times of some of his games (left column: as black, right column: as white):
In my opinion, the images clearly show the progress & games of a cheater:
* a very rapid progress, after he chose to cheat because he just could not get above ~1200 score for several weeks - or maybe he learned how to play so much better within a very short time frame (lets say 1 week)?
* very similar move times patterns: At first, very natural move times, but then he takes a very long time (1 minute or more at blitz) to set up the game in an engine, then uses the same amount of time for every move. It does not matter what type of moves they are: very complex or very easy/forced moves: all of them take the same amount of time.
So, am I correct to assume this guy is a cheater, or are you of different opinion?
Note that most of the games look like this, these are NOT a manual selection by searching the "correct" ones out of 100s of games.