Chess Cube Crackdown

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Too bad white had ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE TO PLAY QH5+ (S)he may have won!

Yeah they have attracted quite a few people new to chess it seems.

Yeah, yeah, cracking down on cheaters:
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Originally posted by enrico20

Playchess/ICC can differentiate between task switching and actual cheating. Chess Cube can't.[/b]

Unfortunately playchess does not: 5 task switches during a game will identify you as a cheater, no matter if you simply read an email or watch a movie while playing. That leaves only one serious site.

I think it's just a matter of time before I hang a piece and get accused of using Fritz giveaway.

Originally posted by cotoi
Unfortunately playchess does not: 5 task switches during a game will identify you as a cheater, no matter if you simply read an email or watch a movie while playing. That leaves only one serious site.

Unfortunately you are lying. Read the posts before carefully and see how many times I task-switched during RATED games ON playchess. If you can record a movie of you task-switching 5 times and being flagged as a cheater then do this.

OTHERWISE YOU ARE LYING JUST AS THE OTHER FELLOW DID.

Originally posted by enrico20
Unfortunately you are lying. Read the posts before carefully and see how many times I task-switched during RATED games ON playchess. If you can record a movie of you task-switching 5 times and being flagged as a cheater then do this.

OTHERWISE YOU ARE LYING JUST AS THE OTHER FELLOW DID.

Cool it. Don't turn this into a personal argument.

Hi Enrico.

I believe you!!

It may be that it is not an automatic thing and the scanner has to be
pointed at a suspect (or selected group of players).

Or perhaps as a newbie they leave you alone for the first few weeks.

I joined Chess Cube when it first started left it for a few weeks,
forgot my password and now cannot get back on. No big deal.

Originally posted by enrico20
Unfortunately you are lying. Read the posts before carefully and see how many times I task-switched during RATED games ON playchess. If you can record a movie of you task-switching 5 times and being flagged as a cheater then do this.

OTHERWISE YOU ARE LYING JUST AS THE OTHER FELLOW DID.

Two years ago I had my rating reset on playchess because of that. I emailed a sysadmin who confirmed that, if you switch the task more than 5 time during a game, first you get a warning that "cheating leads to account termination" and then your rating is reset. There is nothing one could do since the process was completely automatic.

I don't know what happened since then as I won't ever play again there.

Originally posted by Forum Moderator
Cool it. Don't turn this into a personal argument.

Apologies for going overboard.

I've never been on the 'Play chess' site does it employ a analysis board similar to here at RHP?

After this thread I joined ChessCube to have a look. The interface is nice, and it's easy to get a game. However, I had a slight problem with the anti-cheater wizardry:

In one game, my opponent tried to abort the game in a totally lost position (for him). I refused .. so he then lets the clock count down with 6:30 left rather than playing on. This happens from time to time at FICS, and it's not a big deal - I do other stuff while the clock is ticking and listen for the move. However, if the interface is going to log task switching and interpret it as cheating, this is not possible.

So, the jury is still out, but certainly for those 6 minutes the system seemed rather annoying ...