5.7 Online cheating allegations, real and imagined

[Vladimir Drkulec]

This is a discussion with regard to online play and the annoyingly prevalent examples of online cheating and seemingly equally prevalent allegations of online cheating in the absence of hard evidence.

[Pierre Dénommée]

The Standard of Proof in over the board chess and in online chess is not the same. Cheating online often have no influence on a player over the board cheating record. Unfortunately, some online claims of cheating are wrong to such an extent that there would have been a punishment for frivolous claim if it had originated from a person instead of a machine.

In my opinion, it is still better to leave the final decision to a group of competent humans.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I think this might become a bigger problem with the idea of a unified online, FIDE and Federation ID.

We have an online committee looking at this. Hopefully they will give us some workable recommendations. I find this situation quite frustrating.

[Pierre Dénommée]

Another important question : will rated online chess popularity survive the end of the pandemic?

[Vladimir Drkulec]

Another important question : will rated online chess popularity survive the end of the pandemic?

I think it should continue if we can get a handle on cheating. I think there might be a future in hybrid events for those who can't travel easily.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

This thread was not as fully developed as I might have liked. We can continue the discussion on the CFC forums.