Questions tagged [cheating]
Questions concerning cheating in various forms, for example using a chess computer in tournaments or throwing a game.
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has FIDE banned anyone for sandbagging before
Today I came across this article where it says that FIDE has banned a player from Sandbagging 36-year-old Li Haoyu from Tianjin in northern China was found guilty of breaching Article 11.7(e)(ii) of ...
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Value of a "telephone joker" (one-time engine help)
One master said, in a cheating discussion (quoted from memory): "A single engine help per game would be enough to win all of my games!". Has this ever been tested experimentally? After all, ...
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Are there any banned substances that would give chess players an edge?
In other words, does chess have a doping issue like cycling? Reasoning: recreational chess player, but professional computer programmers. I could use some help eg in job interviews as long as I don't ...
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Help Needed: Developing a Machine Learning Model for Detecting Chess Engine Use
I am currently working on my bachelor thesis, focusing on detecting the use of chess engines during games. My goal is to develop a machine learning model that can analyze game data and identify ...
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Is there a "database of cheat games"?
I want to train an AI to distinguish cheaters from normal players, as part of an AI-related course program. Is there any dataset of caught (engine) cheaters' cheat games? An engine-cheat game is ...
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When to call out a cheat?
Played a 900 ELO friend on chess.com with no time limit, and was doing very well in the first half. However from move 40 to his win on 73, he played perfectly by stockfish suggestions, and was given ...
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Since what year would small-scale cheating have given an advantage in e.g. the World Championship?
This is a purely hypothetical question that could give me some insight into chess history because I am by no means an expert in the latter. From what year would e.g. the world champion or the ...
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Why not keep opponents anonymous (hide their identity) in elite events?
Without changing the format, ensuring the correct number of games are played between the correct players, but hide the identity of who's playing who while the game is in progress (from the players, ...
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Why is an unconvential move cheating?
I heard about Brandon Jacobson, a GM, having been banned from chess.com for cheating. It looks that the reason was that [their anonymous account] reached an elo above 3100, but there’s a catch – they ...
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How isn't a time management extension cheating / unethical?
An extension was released 3 years ago in 2021Feb: Hikaru and GothamChess Tell You to MOVE (Time Management Extension). After a certain amount of elapsed time, you get notified by a voice of Hikaru ...
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Cheating with team order
To my best knowlegde mere permutation of team order is pointless (at least by German rules here): everyone playing too low loses by default, everyone too high is a weaker opponent than in the "...
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Is wearing headphones during chess games against the rules in FIDE and Chess.com?
Recently Vladimir Kramnik accused Hikaru Nakamura of cheating in online chess. He Tweeted : "It is impossible to imagine a player to be allowed to wear headphones during a game of chess." Or ...
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Manual pairings in tournaments
I had recently participated in a tournament and I think there is some manual pairing hidden inside which causes my friend to play against me. Since my friend had a higher score, I had to give up and ...
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Cheating Protocols
Does FIDE (or any national federations) have any set protocols regarding detection of cheating? Or maybe a formal process for adjudicating suspicion? From what I can tell, the arbiter at St. Louis ...
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How strong should the evidence for cheating be, before you reveal it?
This is an extension of a question I asked previously here. Somebody who can prove cheating beyond reasonable doubt might easily decide to tell the public about it all. The main question is, what if ...
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