How Many Elite Chess Players Cheat?(wsj.com) |
How Many Elite Chess Players Cheat?(wsj.com) |
> Now when a high-level player is caught, Chess.com plans to make the ban public.
What could go wrong? There are no risks of false positives in a proprietary and closed system making probabilistic and unfalsifiable judgments against players. It’s not like it could impact their career.
Despite the opening looking Bongcloud-tier and objectively terrible (against a computer), it's surprisingly hard to refute as a human, especially during blitz, for two reasons:
1. Rooks are endgame pieces. Many blitz games don't last to an endgame. Trading your late-game piece for one of your opponent's most crucial opening/midgame pieces gives you an incredible jump on activity.
2. The gambit completely neutralizes the opponent's knowledge of opening theory. On the flip side, Viih_Sou has the advantage of studying dozens of lines for months.
Chess.com hasn't reversed the ban, but I think Brandon was telling the truth. I think using a bizarre opening that sacrifices material and involves questionable lines, followed up by the exacting genius of a GM playing top engine moves, stuck out as a statistical anomaly and tripped their Fair Play system.
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