in this video you will learn how to identify and potentially defeat somebody you're playing in
a game of chess who is cheating i've split the video into two parts the first is a blitz game
that i played on stream today against a person who i thought was a little bit suspicious and
the second part i will show you some clues that you can pick up on to recognize you're
playing against somebody who is not playing fair so i think we're playing a cheater
i'm gonna say hi are you a cheater so if we look at this person's profile
this person has a new account no title a ridiculously high rating of like 2600
and a ridiculously high win rate and an astronomical growth chart from a thousand
to 2600 winning every single game that they're playing basically so says what kind of question
is that is what my opponent just said to me said what kind of question is that
i think you are a cheater
alright so the general rule of thumb against computers is to play a very solid setup now
we're also gonna track my opponent's time how much time is spent on every single move
um so far there is nothing so far our opponent is just i don't know what's going on here i don't
know if this is like a computer reboot or what is happening but the general rule of thumb against
engines oh there's the disconnect oh here he comes why do i it's not about sussing people
chat members it's about the fact that um okay now let's watch okay that was two moves that was two
okay that was about three or four
okay now here's what i'm doing this is the anti-computer strategy
hippo and king's indian very non-confrontational setups can make the i mean like yeah okay what
even is this uh very non-confrontational setups like the hippo where you basically just do a
whole bunch of nothing and you just wait for the opponent to push upon and then close the position
is how you should beat computers i'm going to play very fast because obviously my opponent
will need a couple of seconds to check his engine before he makes a move and i just have to play
quickly i already burned a lot of time showing the profile i'm not doing anything i'm waiting for a
pawn push so i can lock the structure okay notice that i'm now within 30 seconds opponent is like
trying to look at the engine to see for a better move right and now there is b5 this could be
a target for c4 but i'm just hoping that if the knight moves maybe there's d5 coming or something
so that i can't play it myself if the knight moves i'm going to play d oh there it is
okay now we're going to try to close this up so that c4 break is impossible now we've closed it
but the amount of time the guy is going to need okay you see he's already starting a kingside
attack with g4 right here it comes here oh h5 that shouldn't have allowed that probably
let's go kha now i would love to play g5 i got to be very careful here okay this trade trade knight
f4 is coming maybe i'm gonna sack i'm gonna sack i knew was gonna happen there it is see
he doesn't even it he needs a few seconds to even process that this is the best move you see that he
doesn't even realize that bishop takes f4 is the best move now he might disconnect ah see amazing
okay and there you go 20 seconds later the move bishop takes f4 has occurred
and now we just do nothing because now it's about 10 moves until the flag happens now in a 15-minute
game you have no escape you're gonna lose because the opponent has unlimited time but in a 10-minute
game but but in a five-minute game i mean i literally just do nothing for the rest of the
game i just play random moves let's see like what is this what is this and this that is such a bot
thing only computers think like that but here come the pawns here come the pawns here comes the last
gasp by the opponent to try to beat me i'm just gonna cocoon i'm gonna cook when i'm not gonna do
anything don't play aggressive just cocoon and i think at this point some smart cheaters will start
to incorporate their own moves so that they're actually going to make some moves themselves
and that's when craziness happens but he's not doing that he's just playing his own moves
right like our opponent is just okay what is this uh oh here it comes what did i just say
did i not just say that was going to happen exactly what i just predicted
i knew it was gonna happen he's gonna sack all his pieces because he's trying to flag
me and has no idea how to play chess look at this and mate and we beat a cheater we
checkmated a computer cheater and i'm going to write you are pathetic enjoy the ban
there you go and that is how you beat a computer cheater in a 3-minute blitz game
say hello to youtube by the way oh and very fitting that bye bye bye bye nsync is playing
i predicted that entire game from start to finish minute down super random play by the opponent and
and you know what what what else we should do you know what else we should do
we should analyze the game of course i mean why not in fact we we actually you know what we
should do we should analyze all the games that my opponent has played on their profile okay
let's do that so here we go we're going to go to uh the other window the other monitor
so it turns out that every time my opponent wins he has 99 score 98 score 99 score 99 score now
somehow the guy who i said was a cheater turns out to be winning 99 of games
with a 99 squares so this is what contributes to cheating at the 25 2600 level okay it is i
mean i don't know what this is like you don't know what this is like it could be literally a
random stock photo the photo doesn't really matter unless it's literally a photo of like you know
a robot um the country doesn't matter uh i don't want anybody first of all very important just
cause you see a country it doesn't just open the door for you to be racist com like cheating
and racism are two very different things that could be a fake flag i hate when i see that and
i catch a cheater and someone says oh those damn turks don't do that that's disgusting don't infuse
any insults of racism okay just i need to say that right now now a couple of easy giveaways very new
account and again the first thing i check is the win rate i mean 253 wins and 19 losses what what
is this guy this guy magnus carlson on adderall like okay now if you look at the game history he
hasn't lost the game like apparently ever in his entire chess career and then uh on top of that
um you know we got the game we gotta analyze and you'll notice that my opponent played in a
much higher accuracy than i did and the mistakes only happened look at this gradual increase here
now the hippo the setup that i played is a computer buster
hikaru taught me this and i mean just any opening see i'm playing like inaccurate moves but look at
what my opponent is doing like what is a3 b4 queen b1 i mean no human in history would play like this
i mean it's just a joke right and then look at these mcqueen b3 what what and then and you'll
notice like what is the rook doing behind the queen right and then a4 and then rook d1 i'm just
waiting and then i play b5 and then d5 so d5 is a mistake e5 best move and h4 immediately punishing
me right i'm playing 94 and here the opponent spent 25 seconds on recapturing my rook which
is obviously a giveaway um and then the rest of the game was self-explanatory my opponent played
when i see moves like c3 and knight to h2 you know you're playing a computer because no human
being thinks like that no human being thinks let me push upon and then a night and then a night on
the other side of the board it turns out that this guy um got banned wow he was banned immediately
incredible after writing what kind of question is that i love talking to obvious cheaters anyway
let me explain myself so at the end i promised that i would explain to you my methodology for
identifying these people and catching them first things first when the game is actually going on
you can generally tell weird moves and a consistent flow of them cheaters oftentimes
will play moves anywhere between three and seven seconds on a consistent basis because
they're going to be looking at a device of some sort and then making the move on the board so
in the game you saw that even like an obvious recapture move that should be an automatic capture
which could have happened in half a second took my opponent like 25 seconds for whatever reason
and then there will be disconnects and and and whatnot but a couple of things specific for the
profile obviously the one that already got banned i kind of talked about uh i look very first at um
the ratings actually um you know i saw the rating was 2600 all the other ratings don't even exist
like this person is 1100 blitz i mean bullet they basically play nothing else so that's already
strange so i'll go to the profile and i'll go okay well a brand new account um the rating chart which
i showed during the game uh this person does like no puzzles this person has played three
games ever in rapid they've won all those games and then you start looking at this and see not
all websites have this cap score that shaz.com has and cap score isn't the most um you can't
just use the cap score to determine if someone is cheating but look if a person has won every single
game that they've played and basically every time they've had a 98 99 score they are winning games
in perfect fashion consistently this person as i said is either you know magnus carlson on adderall
or um i don't know this person is cheating so that this one was kind of easy and straightforward and
i mean the game itself was you know it had a few very strange moments but that was all
self-explanatory but two other people one of which i played this person yesterday uh i played this
person in my pawn structure video uh how to play with pawns this person was a longtime subscriber
and i was playing this person as the game was going on and it was just playing very well like
for a 900 extremely well i was like what is going on this person's making like no mistakes and here
apparently he you know he had a very strong move this person was doing something correctly
they were doing something called sporadic cheating they were not always playing the top engine move
at times they were infusing their own move thinking that they were clever
and if we look at this person's profile this was made in 2017 it's a long time
we look at their blitz 334 wins 336 losses like 50 50. so that's not suspicious but then we
look at their game history you notice this person basically only plays people who are significantly
higher than they are they are not a 900 level player or i mean they don't they're not playing
900 level players they're only playing really really highly rated players and then their only
wins like for example they beat a 2 000 what how did a 900 be to 2000 with a 93 score and there's
a one down here you guys can't see it it's way down but they beat a 1750 at when they were 904
with like 90 but the rest of it is so strange they don't play other 900s but they're beating
2000s what so i i got really suspicious of this person as the game was going on i reported them
just to you know that they've raised my suspicions and it turned out that i was right and the thing
is you know it's not just about this it's january 13th they could have cheated anytime december and
what you have to understand about fair play is is trust.com specifically and all the other
websites have their own metrics but they also are receiving hundreds of thousands of these things
and many of them are not accurate you know many of them are you know joe schmoe lost to you know
uh bob and uh was upset and decided to report bob for cheating even though bob doesn't cheat
so these things happen all the time um and if we you know we take a look at like for example
on stream i also ran into this person actually a couple hours after i played this actual cheater
the interesting thing about um this guy is um this person had a name in their profile it's
a relatively new account they had a name and i looked up the name and there was i found no
record of this person in any chess database i was like what they got a fake name i looked at this uh
they're like right at their peak they hit it today this video was recorded you know january uh 15th
their win rate is you know 700 wins 366 losses you know if you look at their chart um it's not like
i mean uh oh actually it is pretty insane so yeah this person made their account and then
since making their account they have gone up you know 800 points um but they are cheating
on a pretty balanced way and you know the way you can figure this out is again this you know
how many games have they uh played where they look at their wins 99 98 97 97 98 98 97 94 98 97 like
they're winning at ridiculous rates so a couple of ways to identify cheaters um generally length
of the account win percentage uh these kind of you know scores and you know how how much they
score accurately throughout the course of a game um and as i said during the actual game itself
uh you know if someone's cheating it's pathetic and it's sad and you should report them if they
raise these suspicions but there's no need to take it a step farther no need to escalate it
uh no need to you know write disgusting messages don't stoop down to their level
okay cheaters are always going to exist but be the better person i'll see you in the next video