@Psyamb said in #9:
> @RealDavidNavara
> The obvious answer (just my humble opinion) is that there are programs that people can switch on in difficult positions that highlights different engine suggested moves at the board. I believe such programs/bots are increasing in use amongst young players.
>
> I’m not a good player, around 1600 fide. Whenever I play online blitz, I win some and loose some and I have no chance to get above 2000 lichess rating. I am now around 1900-1950). So often (every day I play) I see in some of the games that when I am in a superior position, where I am up a piece (even a queen), then the opponent suddenly start to make moves of highly better quality than before, where it suddenly gets so hard to benefit from my previous better position where I also have more material. And in the end I break and loose. In many of those games I am sure the opponents switch on the bot/program, in attempt to try to avoid loosing. There are in my opinion so many that can not handle to loose in chess/loose rating, so they cheat a bit to avoid such «personal disasters», especially if they are under cover of beeing an anonymous online player.
You're right. The software you referred on your post is straightforward to get and people's cheating is continuously being increased. People play chess like a video game. For them they're not cheating, just trying to find a "shortcut" to the win.
Online chess will eventually collapse if the chess servers don't take part in this mess and start to close accounts at the first doubt of someone's act of cheating.
> @RealDavidNavara
> The obvious answer (just my humble opinion) is that there are programs that people can switch on in difficult positions that highlights different engine suggested moves at the board. I believe such programs/bots are increasing in use amongst young players.
>
> I’m not a good player, around 1600 fide. Whenever I play online blitz, I win some and loose some and I have no chance to get above 2000 lichess rating. I am now around 1900-1950). So often (every day I play) I see in some of the games that when I am in a superior position, where I am up a piece (even a queen), then the opponent suddenly start to make moves of highly better quality than before, where it suddenly gets so hard to benefit from my previous better position where I also have more material. And in the end I break and loose. In many of those games I am sure the opponents switch on the bot/program, in attempt to try to avoid loosing. There are in my opinion so many that can not handle to loose in chess/loose rating, so they cheat a bit to avoid such «personal disasters», especially if they are under cover of beeing an anonymous online player.
You're right. The software you referred on your post is straightforward to get and people's cheating is continuously being increased. People play chess like a video game. For them they're not cheating, just trying to find a "shortcut" to the win.
Online chess will eventually collapse if the chess servers don't take part in this mess and start to close accounts at the first doubt of someone's act of cheating.
