Indonesian Chess Community should stop defending dewa_kipas

*Bagi orang Indonesia yg kurang fasih bahasa inggris, tidak apa-apa silahkan menggunakan google translate.*

Firstly, I want to mention that I am Indonesian and am currently studying in Indonesia and playing for my university's chess club. I'm using the Japanese flag because I'm a Weaboo lol

I am writing this forum post not to shame anyone of cheating, but to analyze objectively what happened & what the Indonesian chess community should do moving forward. This is also because I feel bad that Levy is being harassed by the online community for not even doing anything wrong.

No one has discussed this case comprehensively enough so I will try my best to do so.

I have 4 points to deliver to achieve the goal of this thread:

1. Analyze the account of dewa_kipas, what raises suspicion?

Firstly, Iet's analyze dewa_kipas and all of this mess. One month ago, we can see that dewa_kipas is struggling against even 1300s, which clearly shows that this player is 100% not even at 2000 elo strength. You can say maybe their kid played on this account or any other excuse, but that in itself is already grounds for being banned.

Next we can see that dewa_kipas  in these series of games have consecutively played at an accuracy of over 90%, SOME EVEN AT 99.2 & 99.5%!! which is a clear and indisputable sign of cheating. There is 100% no way a casual human player can play this well consecutively.

2. Relying on chess.com's cheat detection

Chess.com has explained this time and time again, that they do not respond to mass reporting. They have a system that's designed for this, and every month approximately 15,000 accounts are closed for fair-play violations and so we know they are taking this very seriously.

You can refer to this video from 2020 explaining their system of detecting online cheaters that have been reliable for many many years. From the public POV, no discrimination among titled or non-titled players. Mass-reporting only increases the speed at which someone is banned, but the entire process of cheat detection is the same whether the accused has been mass reported or not.

3. Dewa_kipas's defense towards the accusations

This is where the nail hits the coffin, these statements have been provided by dewa_kipas's son which reads...

"1. The drastic increase in ELO is normal for playing non-stop, because my dad also joins a club that has many people playing non-stop for hours against many players.

2. My dad (a bit emotional) often shows off that he can beat 4 GMs in succession. But this statement can be proven, because I've seen it first hand, My dad always plays manually, the only AI he uses is for training, not against other players.

3. Actually, I'm happy that his account got blocked. Because, all this time he always plays non-stop, so it's like someone reminded him to stop playing.

There is no plan to return the blocked account, let my dad rest."

"My dad is more serious when he plays AI Shredder with ELO 2600 compared to playing ranked matches online, even when he gets accuracy 90%++ he still loses."

This defense does not provide evidence as to this player's strength... only claiming it and saying that he does a lot of training with an AI for some reason.

No one can play like an engine just because they train with an engine, so the multiple 99%++ accuracy shown in the pictures above already proves this player's guilt.

4. Indonesian Chess Community

I have been part of the community for many years, watched silently as we seem to be growing together. But like in any and all Indonesian communities, the online community is very toxic. Every time something remotely bad is mentioned about Indonesia or it's people, I admit that the online community absolutely tries to destroy that individual.

Let's face it, dewa_kipas is objectively and so obviously guilty & by the Indonesian chess community taking this stance, the rest of the world is not going to want to associate with us.
Apologies to @GothamChess for this horrible behavior by our community, but unfortunately you've become a victim of the toxicity of the Indonesian online community.

I don't care how much backlash I will get from my own community, but these things have to be said.

Gothamchess is being harrased by the Indonesian community because he exposed a cheater. Spammed with dislikes on his YouTube, forced to private his twitter.
That's the situation, someone needs to address the Indonesian chess community comprehensively.

why are you doing this in the public forums? 

I have literally no idea where else to put this lol

This will get locked like the other supporting @dewa_kipas

Ahh Okay thanks. I'll deal with it when it happens.

Discussions about cheating are not allowed in the general forums.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/discussions-about-cheating

If you would like to discuss that you can join the following club. 

https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

If you suspect another player of using disallowed resources, you may report it.

https://support.chess.com/article/209-how-do-i-report-someone

https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com