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Evidence for the cheat police

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Very sensibly, we now have the CP investigating allegations of cheeting.
Splendid.
In order to submit a querie as to possible cheating, one must use the feedback system, detailing evidence of said cheeting.
OK so far.
Now, I have a suspicion regarding a certain player: a rather dubious graph with a sudden winning streak against all comers after fairly consistant loses in the 1200s. It's not what I would call evidence though. How then am I expected to gather sufficient evidence for the CP to take an interest?
I have no engines and wouldn't know what constituted 'evidence' using them if I did.
I suspect I will not be alone in this. So how then can the CP act, when none but a very few skilled individuals have the ability and tools to gather sufficient evidence to enact the CP process? And if the CP process cannot be enacted, do we have a CP process at all?

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Originally posted by Toe
Very sensibly, we now have the CP investigating allegations of cheeting.
Oh,we now have the CheetPolice............

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Darn. I thought I caught all my misspellings on the first edit. Oh well.

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I have an engine that I used to analyse a suspicious game, how much evidence is required to report someone?

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Originally posted by ark13
I have an engine that I used to analyse a suspicious game, how much evidence is required to report someone?
I have absolutely no idea and suspect most players are in the same boat as me on that. Thus my choice to air this issue in a public thread rather than by site feeback.

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Originally posted by Toe
Very sensibly, we now have the CP investigating allegations of cheeting.
In order to submit a querie as to possible cheating, one must use the feedback system, detailing [b]evidence
of said cheeting.
When they ask for evidence they don't expect you to do the work of the mod team. All you have to do is submit the game.

"Just do it". :-)

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Originally posted by arrakis
When they ask for evidence they don't expect you to do the work of the mod team. All you have to do is submit the game.

"Just do it". :-)
cheers for the encouragement, but as I said, it's their rating graph and the sudden change in behaviour of that graph that got me thinking: I've neevr played them and don't have any specific game in mind (though any of the last 50 may be contenders...)

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Originally posted by Toe
Very sensibly, we now have the CP investigating allegations of cheeting.
Splendid.
In order to submit a querie as to possible cheating, one must use the feedback system, detailing [b]evidence
of said cheeting.
OK so far.
Now, I have a ...[text shortened]... the CP process cannot be enacted, do we have a CP process at all?[/b]
Drop me a PM, Toe. I'll be off and online for a bit this evening.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Drop me a PM, Toe. I'll be off and online for a bit this evening.
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Shall do Phlab: cheers.

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How do I submit a game? Where's feedback?

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Originally posted by ark13
How do I submit a game? Where's feedback?
there's a "send feedback" link at the bottom of every page. Just make sure you fill in the message with as much info as you have to hand on the matter.

What I was trying to get out of this thread mainly was some idea of what the CP would consider as being 'reasonable grounds', given the lack of 'forensic' skills held by players en masse.

A barrage of trivail cases would overload the CP, while a lack of cases would invalidate the process. Middlegrounds are always tricky to find and walk well.

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It is so silly to cheat in chess. Since you do not benefit monetarily from playing chess here at rhp, what purpose does it serve? Does it really make people feel good to win from cheating? "Oooooooh! I am so good I have a 1900 rating from cheating! Everyone will think I am great!" sad really

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Originally posted by elvendreamgirl
It is so silly to cheat in chess. Since you do not benefit monetarily from playing chess here at rhp, what purpose does it serve? Does it really make people feel good to win from cheating? "Oooooooh! I am so good I have a 1900 rating from cheating! Everyone will think I am great!" sad really
Crikey!

Is that what people think when they see a 1900 rating?

The cheats on here obviously suffer from a lack of ambition as well as being dishonest. You've gotta admire their consistency at taking the easy way.

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What I was trying to get out of this thread mainly was some idea of what the CP would consider as being 'reasonable grounds', given the lack of 'forensic' skills held by players en masse.
Like I said, all members should simply submit the game along with a note why they thought the game is suspicious.

Believe me... if we are to give the mods any credibility, it has to start with the members. So any member who suspects computer abuse needs to simply send the game to the mods along with a note why they suspect computer abuse and the mod team will take over from there.

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Interesting, i have no engines as well, nor do i know how to use one...but if you send me a pm i can take a look at the games, im a pretty good judge, im havent been in the forums for the past lil bit when it comes to the whole cheating situation, im wondering why David Tebb is gone from the list? A personal Decision perhaps....Ive recently been receiving messages about cheaters here, actually 4 messages, anyone receive the same?

Dustin

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