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0 pointsmsbarnett3y ago0 comments

> If he gets caught cheating on an online game, whether it is chess.com or counterstrike, who cares?

Chess.com isn’t the yahoo chess web app or whatever, there’s more at stake there than “gamerscore”. Some of these 100 games were in online tournaments for cash prizes.

Just because it wasn’t a FIDE run tournament doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter or that no one cares. The chess.com Pro Chess League they suggest he cheated in 12 games of had a $100,000 prize fund.

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yodsanklai3y ago

> The chess.com Pro Chess League they suggest he cheated in 12 games of had a $100,000 prize fund.

I'd argue that an online tournament is bogus if anybody can cheat by using a computer.

msbarnettOP3y ago

You understand that this whole discussion is about how chess.com detected this at the time and booted him, right? They appear to be doing a better job of detecting cheating than OTB tournaments, which doesn’t say to me “anybody can cheat by using a computer”

yodsanklai3y ago

Their statistical models aren't going to detect accurately a player getting help for a couple of moves during a game, which is already enough to make a big difference.

They may be able to detect consistent cheating over many games, but still, one can assume that cheating is pervasive in online platforms.

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0 pointsmsbarnett3y ago0 comments

> If he gets caught cheating on an online game, whether it is chess.com or counterstrike, who cares?

Chess.com isn’t the yahoo chess web app or whatever, there’s more at stake there than “gamerscore”. Some of these 100 games were in online tournaments for cash prizes.

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yodsanklai3y ago

> The chess.com Pro Chess League they suggest he cheated in 12 games of had a $100,000 prize fund.

I'd argue that an online tournament is bogus if anybody can cheat by using a computer.

msbarnettOP3y ago

yodsanklai3y ago

Their statistical models aren't going to detect accurately a player getting help for a couple of moves during a game, which is already enough to make a big difference.

They may be able to detect consistent cheating over many games, but still, one can assume that cheating is pervasive in online platforms.

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