▲ 313 ▼ Chess World's 'Anal Bead' Cheating Saga Quietly Comes To An End (kotaku.com) submitted 2 years ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 76 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) they claimed to have proof for iirc hundreds of times cheating in online matches! They merely stated his play was, across many games, indistinguishable from a cheater, they didn't have actual hard proof that he was cheating. If they had actual proof they wouldn't have needed to settle permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) In chess, doesn't that mean he was playing well? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago It's a bit more nuanced than that. Chess engines exist, and computers have the ability to always make the most correct move given the current board state 100% of the time, even when viable alternatives exist. That's how they tend to catch cheaters. If you're out of book moves and making engine optimal moves every turn, there's a strong suspicion that you are using a computer to cheat. Even Grandmasters play sub-optimal moves, so when novices come out swinging with near-100% accuracy on their scorecard, it raises a lot of alarm bells. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) In chess, doesn't that mean he was playing well? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago It's a bit more nuanced than that. Chess engines exist, and computers have the ability to always make the most correct move given the current board state 100% of the time, even when viable alternatives exist. That's how they tend to catch cheaters. If you're out of book moves and making engine optimal moves every turn, there's a strong suspicion that you are using a computer to cheat. Even Grandmasters play sub-optimal moves, so when novices come out swinging with near-100% accuracy on their scorecard, it raises a lot of alarm bells. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago It's a bit more nuanced than that. Chess engines exist, and computers have the ability to always make the most correct move given the current board state 100% of the time, even when viable alternatives exist. That's how they tend to catch cheaters. If you're out of book moves and making engine optimal moves every turn, there's a strong suspicion that you are using a computer to cheat. Even Grandmasters play sub-optimal moves, so when novices come out swinging with near-100% accuracy on their scorecard, it raises a lot of alarm bells. permalink fedilink source parent