• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    they claimed to have proof for iirc hundreds of times cheating in online matches!

    They merely stated his play was, across many games, indistinguishable from a cheater, they didn’t have actual hard proof that he was cheating.

    If they had actual proof they wouldn’t have needed to settle

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        1 year ago

        It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Chess engines exist, and computers have the ability to always make the most correct move given the current board state 100% of the time, even when viable alternatives exist. That’s how they tend to catch cheaters. If you’re out of book moves and making engine optimal moves every turn, there’s a strong suspicion that you are using a computer to cheat. Even Grandmasters play sub-optimal moves, so when novices come out swinging with near-100% accuracy on their scorecard, it raises a lot of alarm bells.