Author: Kevin Stafford
Date: 11:13:28 10/17/01
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I caught a ~1600 standard rating player cheating the other day on ICC, just by random chance. I was observing a few games I picked randomly off the games list while I was eating dinner, and using chess tiger (built into chess assistant) to analyze the games as they were played. I noticed this one guy who picked the same exact moves as chess tiger, winning material left and right. I at first thought it was curious, so I followed him for the next 4 games or so, and the same thing. He was making spectactular combinations with no mistakes. Afterwards I ran the games I watched through the blunder check, with a low threshold of only 30 centipawns. This person had _no_ blunders of even a third of a pawn, over about 5 games, a feat I doubt a GM could match, much less a 1600 player. His opponents of course had plenty. The point is, cheaters are out there, even on icc. This guy was pretty obvious, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who are better at it, and would be extremely difficult to catch, especially with some sort of automated system. I reported him to speedtrap, so hopefully he is caught and given a warning, but there are probably many more casual cheaters out there like him. You know, those who do it just on occassion, because they really want to get their rating up a few points, or because they want to beat someone to get revenge. I find this sort even more reprehensible because they are difficult to catch (I was lucky to be watching him at the exact time he was doing it), and they affect those in the lower end of the rating pool who have no chance of winning against a machine. -Kevin
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