One way to catch a cheater
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I agree annotation isn't fool proof but it will deter some plus it would be interesting to see the thought process of a legit player
1. analyze window focus? Although it is lame, playchess "detects" cheaters using this method :))
What happens if you are multitasking? It would falsely detect that you are cheating.
As for annotation, it doesn't really prove anything. I could annotate some games and I'm only about 900.(My actual rating isn't really accurate)
Apr 25, 2008
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our tools have nothing to do with reports from other users. i can't go into details (because i don't want to give info on how to work around it), but it does analyze patterns and use computer analysis of the play. we also use final human judgement taking into account all evidence.
I think that all the people who post here are cheaters..... to detract the attention a way from themselves.
What about detecting plagiarizers who pretend that they wrote their own blogs? That's going on here too, I'm pretty sure. And one of them has actually been nominated for an award.
The best way to deter the cheaters is to just beat them. Play with a little chaos in your game. They cant change the rules of the game, or move your pieces while you are not looking. If the cheaters are using an expert(cant be that many of them because most experts would compete themselves to help them, then you are in reality playing the expert even though the cheater is taking credit. As far as tournaments go its just a matter of ensuring theres an actual person playing and not an automated machine. I have other thoughts about this, but the biggest one is believe you can beat everyone you play even the grand master, then the cheaters wont really affect you.
Apr 26, 2008
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alec94x wrote:
But what if a clever cheater has a friend or pays a strong Chess Player at a club cash to explain the moves of the game for him he just cuts and pastes it to the sight and pretends he did it there's no way for anyone to prove it wasn't him.
If ANYONE goes to that length to cheat you, they have no life.
Well, cheaters have no life :) I guess that some of them, when visiting their wives/girlfriends also take a vibrator in their pocket 
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I would argue that "we cannot tell what are our methods of detecting cheating because we don't want people to find a work-around". In cryptography, the general opinion is that, if you have a good cryptographic scheme, then you should make it public. Only then you'll find out how good is it indeed. There were cases in the past with "secret" cryptographic protocols invented by private companies which were broken in fact extremely easily... And their authors thought about them (and proved mathematically sometimes) that they were not crackable...
I do think that cheating is a plague for online chess. For that reason, I never play serious games online (more than 20 minutes per game), it's too much time to waste if your opponent is a cheater. I often play 15-minutes games while doing something else (I mean, I do not think on my opponent time).
And there are smart cheaters out there. Really smart... They make mistakes from time to time (just to break your pattern analysis), they do not always make the best (computer- recommended move) and sometimes they play on their own when the outcome of the position is clear (so, when you try to compute the percentage of good moves, you get something which looks like a human being).
well..some people are just good at math which benifit their chess skills...like my dad for example.....i took 1 class and he watched a video of chess on youtube and he owned me.....he got like 3 queens....but...now i am a tougher opponent and i a beat him fairly often...using this website and some classes
I have seen guys hammered over the board beaten the same opponents everytime when they play on line. The reason they always give is : Well, I do have more time to think ! True chess players are not idiots and do know when their opponent is cheating and the only person they are fooing is themself. And, as a consequence, when they are in an awkward position 'over the board' and need to think for themselves their lack of cogitative analysis is quite evident and they try and pass it of as a "blunder' . That is why, in real life, their chess rating never improves but goes down.