confused about engine usage

Originally posted by Tactics and Endgames
How do you know they are cheating? because you lose?

Simple: if you are an amateur and play, over many games, much better than any player in the history (including patzers like Alehin, Fischer or Kasparov), what do you believe? Incidentaly, "playing better" doesn't mean "finding good moves", but finding optimal moves, exactly the moves which would have been selected by an engine. I'm sorry, I don't believe in unknown geniuses out there, who play at 2700+ ELO and yet they don't even have an ELO.

Alekhine was no patzer.

Yeah, totally, but Kasparov and Fisher were.

LoL agreed.

Compared to the top players on the internet - who aparently are not engine users, or at least that is what the site owners claim - Kasparov, Fischer or Alekhine were patzers.

Originally posted by nimzo5

3) It does matter, unless you think you will find a site that has eliminated all cheats. In which case, you wont be playing CC.[/b]

So, if you play CC it's likely that you'll play cheaters and of course you can use an engine as long as you take care not to match Rybka 100%?

1) yes, you will. It's psych 101. If you don't put a mirror in front of an unsupervised candy bowl on halloween kids will take far more than what they deserve.
2) Your QQ will have more weight if you add something more to this community than complaining from a non-subscriber. You accomplish nothing. Go ahead fire up your rybka, your fritz, your firebird, your stockfish, exploit away until you get banned.

Originally posted by nimzo5

2) Your QQ will have more weight if you add something more to this community than complaining from a non-subscriber. You accomplish nothing. Go ahead fire up your rybka, your fritz, your firebird, your stockfish, exploit away until you get banned.[/b]

Don't worry, I'll keep my matchup rate well below Weyerstrass or Atlantischess or others 🙂

Still around? I thought you said this site was terrible...

I didn't say it's terrible, it looks just like another site where engine assistance is theoretically forbidden but in fact it is allowed. I understood on chess.com that cheaters are vital for a chess server to survive. Because many of them pay for membership ...

Originally posted by orion25
Still around? I thought you said this site was terrible...

LOL, you beat me to that comment 😉

How can I see what players have been banned? I only know of two players being removed for cheating (ih8sens and cludi), since both of them play successfully on chess.com. It looks like the two sites exchange cheaters between them 🙂
I also know that Cludi was a game moderator, so he was supposed to detect other users if they cheat or not. May I ask what qualifications are required to become such a moderator? On CTS, when he was solving tactics there, Cludi was about 1600. That means in real life he can't be over 2000 ELO.