Well I've often thought of the following possible explanations:
1. As a prank
2. To give the impression of being a winner, especially for someone whom the impression
is more important than the substance behind it.
3. Making a game out of a deception.
4. As a role playing game where the player takes on a persona and pretends
to be someone else with invented characteristics that include some chess ability.
5. A genuine keen chess player who has succumbed to a tiny bit seemingly venial
cheating at a critical moment, say running the odd blunder check, only to find
this has fed a progressively voracious appetite for chess success that can
only be fueled by evermore heinous acts of cheating until the whole game
has transmogrified from the study and execution of chess skill to a desperate search
for more and more sophisticated ways to elude detection.
Quite simply put, cheaters are of diffuse morals, competitive without the skills and self absorbed to the point of needing to prove their superiority. Cheaters cannot do so in OTB play so they hide behind the internet like the vermin they are. Cheating is so pointless as to be risible beyond contempt because nothing is accomplished by cheating. Indeed they earn nothing but the scurrilous satisfaction of beating their betters and whom they assume also cheat and justify their behavior thus.
Originally posted by MahoutAlas, this seems to be more common than I thought. When I joined this site. I used to believe that if someone was a proven strong player (e.g. a correspondence IM who has participated in the Correspondence Chess World Championships) then he would have no need to cheat on this site. Now I realise I was mistaken.
5. A genuine keen chess player who has succumbed to a tiny bit seemingly venial cheating at a critical moment, say running the odd blunder check, only to find this has fed a progressively voracious appetite for chess success that can only be fueled by evermore heinous acts of cheating until the whole game has transmogrified from the study and execu on of chess skill to a desperate search for more and more sophisticated ways to elude detection.
I mentioned this somewhere else.
They do it for a laugh. They being the same 10 or 12 individuals
who keep getting caught and keep coming back.
They call themselves the Fritz10 Club.
They see who can go the longest without getting detected
and who can get the highest grade.
They meet up once a year in Wincheater and have a party.
Every move must be a Fritz 1st choice move.
They check each others games and if someone has a low match up.
ie NOT 100% they kick him out of the Fritz10 club.
Originally posted by brian ashtonIf you find out the answer to this, please let me know! Cheating at chess seems like such a waste of time and effort, I just don't get it.😏
Could someone explain what is the point of cheating at chess on RHP its not as if we are playing for a row of houses surely it is just a pleasant pastime playing a game with like minded people?