• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I have a really stupid question. I don’t play chess but how do you “detect” cheating from a good player?

    Outside of the guy that had a butt plug, I’m confused on how you could know online whether someone is cheating or not.

    • zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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      6 days ago

      In part it has to do with matching overly consistently with the moves engines would pick. Even the best players in the world perform worse than modern engines, not to mention you’d expect human players to vary at least sometimes by personal preference among roughly equivalent options.