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Product updates and plain-English guides on how chess cheat detection works.
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Watched Profiles: Every New Game Analyzed Automatically
Premium members can now watch a Chess.com or Lichess profile, and Chess Cheat Detector will analyze each new game it plays without anyone pasting it in.
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A Clearer Move Timeline: Top Engine Moves Are No Longer Red
The results page now colors each move by how common it is at the player's rating, so the timeline no longer implies that every top engine move is a sign of cheating.
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Chess Cheat Detector v3: Strong Players Are No Longer Mistaken for Engines
The v3 Chess Cheat Detector model wrongly flags 16 times fewer honest grandmasters, by learning from real games between the world's strongest players.
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Chess Cheat Detector v2: More Cheaters Caught and Fewer False Flags
The new Chess Cheat Detector model catches more cheaters and wrongly flags five times fewer honest players, by asking what a human at your rating would actually play.
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Building a Chess Cheat Detector
How I built an AI chess cheat detector by simulating 6,613 games with Maia, a human-like chess AI, and how well it catches cheaters.
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How to Tell If Someone Is Cheating on Lichess
Can you tell if someone is cheating on Lichess? Learn how Lichess detects cheaters, the signs worth checking, and how to analyze a game for engine-like play.
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How to Tell If Someone Is Cheating on Chess.com
Learn the signs of cheating in online chess, why accuracy alone isn't enough, and how to analyze a Chess.com game for suspicious play.
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Does High Chess Accuracy Mean Cheating?
Does 95% chess accuracy mean someone is cheating? Learn why accuracy alone isn’t enough, and which signals matter more.
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How To Measure Chess Position Complexity
How we estimate how complex a chess position is using Stockfish. The first in a series on Chess Cheat Detector's internals.
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