Oct

5

Chess.com: 'Niemann Has Likely Cheated In More Than 100 Online Chess Games'

We based this decision on several factors. First, as detailed in this report, Hans admitted to cheating in chess games on our site as recently as 2020 after our cheating-detection software and team uncovered suspicious play.

The interesting thing to me is the cheating detection system.

Big Al imagines:

Trying to imagine what it might be, the first thing that comes to mind is feeding each situation, move by move, into AlphaZero and seeing what AlphaZero would do. If the player's moves match too closely to a program rated 3800, when the player's rating is maybe 1200 points lower, then one must assume the play is computer-assisted.

Antonio Porres Miranda offers:

Statement by Magnus Carlsen

Steve Ellison writes:

I am not sure if the grandmaster is still among us on the list, but I have seen him on social media expressing concerns about what level of due process there is in the event of a public accusation of cheating. He thinks the possibility of being accused might be enough to motivate top players to skip events. For example, here.

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