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Anthony Beckman's avatar

Great analysis, Martin. I love the idea of a new player pool. I see many upsides. I think it would need to be a time x number of games threshold to help cut down bogus accounts. Licheas has something kinda like this with the provisional rating where players can't participate in certain tournaments with a provisional rating.

Thank you for bringing thoughtful analysis (and Dostoyevsky!) to the discussion.

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David Huberman's avatar

Thanks for this, Martin.

I'm a low-rated player on Chess.com who only plays daily games (24 hours between moves). I play against other low-rated players. It's gotten so bad that I check each opponent's recent games to spot the cheaters, and abort games when I think I spot them. This is the behavior I've been taught because of all the cheating!

Then, about 30% of the time, a low rated player makes a series of perfect moves (brilliant ones, even), and I say to myself, "nice engine". And this makes me even sadder, because either my opponent started cheating, which stinks. Or worse, they're not cheating but playing focused, sharp chess. And rather than give them credit, my mind is automatically assuming they're cheating because of the ecosystem we're in.

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