{"id":992,"date":"2021-04-23T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2021-04-23T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:27:15","slug":"chess-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/chess-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating in Online Chess: Is It Worth the Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cheating in online chess platforms can be tempting to some players who are struggling to win. The trouble is that there are many risks associated with cheating, which can lead to the player being suspended from playing online. We explore these risks and how they could affect your game. But how can players cheat at chess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cheating at chess online is as easy as using a next-move chess engine that will guide you to the best possible move giving you near-perfect attacking and defensive move accuracy and avoid making mistakes and blunders to improve your win ratio and online chess rating.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many dangers in cheating as an online chess player, not least of which is the closure of your account, and your information and IP details being banned from opening another. You’ll feel dirty and worthless, or at least you should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article will discuss how cheats do not prosper playing online chess as well as some astounding statistics to how prevalent cheating at chess is at websites, but also provide you with some reassurance that you will rarely be defeated by a cheat and have your honest chess rating affected<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst it is very difficult to become a great chess player and improve your rating to an above-average level, it is fair to say that with cheating, it becomes a much quicker process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have nimble fingers and more than one device at hand, using a chess engine to cheat will be much easier. When using an online chess server to play against someone else, you can simply replicate the positions on the chessboard and ask it to suggest the next move for you in the game of chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will provide you with the best possible move, either from an attacking standpoint or a defensive one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will not link to a chess engine that you can use to cheat in online chess, if you are that way inclined a quick google search will take you there for your nefarious needs, or perhaps your curiosity<\/p>\n\n\n\n A chess engine is not just for cheating, in fact, they are not designed for cheating at all, but are mostly used to train, practice, and learn to recognize the best moves in given situations. You can read more about chess engines<\/a>, and computers elsewhere on the site. [Link to computer chess]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without a doubt, there are very many people who for whatever reason, feel the need to cheat when they play chess online, and the true number of cheats may never be known. So how many people are likely to cheat when playing chess at an online website?<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been over 400,000 chess.com accounts closed because of cheating. If we consider that the number represents those that have been caught, at first glance it is quite spectacular and disappointing. To put the number into context, the website has over 20 million members and represents only 2% of players.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That is somewhat reassuring that, you are likely to encounter instances of cheating at only one game in every 50 that you play, and very probably less than that given that there is an ongoing and automatic process to identify cheats and eliminate them from the competitive system and account closed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would be happy to estimate that whilst it is a random process, you would be unlucky to find yourself up against a cheat in an online chess game for every 200 that you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, whether these players have managed to become titled through actual cheating or not remains a debate, but no doubt, but according to chess.com<\/a> even 46 Grandmasters have had their accounts closed for cheating at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You would imagine that a player that that level would find no need to cheat to gain an advantage, but ‘there is nothing so queer as folk’ I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the more incredible statistics about cheating in chess is the difference between men and women and how they conduct themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUsing a chess engine is an easy way to cheat but is not very satisfying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Chess Engines are not just for cheating<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
More People Cheat in Chess Than You Think<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You Might Be Surprised to Find Titled Players Cheat Too<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
More Men Cheat at Chess than Women!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n