@userfriendly2 said in #20:
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> 2. Programmes like the recently discussed rocket chess etc - and using it for a few difficult positions etc to avoid detection.
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> I stick to faster time controls to avoid cheating online.....
I'm just not sensing that at all in my Long time control games. After 6 months away, I started back playing a ton of Classical games on October 29, so roughly 6 weeks ago. Probably 2 games daily on this site, and at least one on another site, mostly at least 30+30 games, and more often 45+45. I sort for my rating level down to maybe 200 points below, so not that different from your range probably. I've gained rating, and in my last 15 games I'm ( + 7, -0, =8 ). And it's not like I'm playing that great: Post game analysis shows I've thrown away a lot of points. If anything, people are playing LESS well than they should --- leaving games, when they could draw or win, or just giving up when they apparently think "he MUST be winning, he has a high rating...."
If there was all this cheating going on at long time controls, I'd be losing Way more of these games.
Just not seeing it. (knock on wood)
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> 2. Programmes like the recently discussed rocket chess etc - and using it for a few difficult positions etc to avoid detection.
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> I stick to faster time controls to avoid cheating online.....
I'm just not sensing that at all in my Long time control games. After 6 months away, I started back playing a ton of Classical games on October 29, so roughly 6 weeks ago. Probably 2 games daily on this site, and at least one on another site, mostly at least 30+30 games, and more often 45+45. I sort for my rating level down to maybe 200 points below, so not that different from your range probably. I've gained rating, and in my last 15 games I'm ( + 7, -0, =8 ). And it's not like I'm playing that great: Post game analysis shows I've thrown away a lot of points. If anything, people are playing LESS well than they should --- leaving games, when they could draw or win, or just giving up when they apparently think "he MUST be winning, he has a high rating...."
If there was all this cheating going on at long time controls, I'd be losing Way more of these games.
Just not seeing it. (knock on wood)