
As ChessCube approached the 250,000 mark, we had noticed an increased number of cheats on the system. Cheating on the Internet is not new and ChessCube has been dealing with this issue from the start in a number of ways - but the time for automated anti-cheating is here.
Over the last month ChessCube has built a comprehensive cheat-detection system that exposes cheaters in a number of innovative ways. We upgraded our services yesterday to include the cheat tracking service - and within the first few hours we had already tagged 100 cheaters across 500 separate cheating games!
Cheaters typically adopt the following cheat mechanisms:
- Using a chess engine to suggest some of their moves
- Using a friend as a 'ringer' - to help them improve their rating
- Time-tampering - where they attempt to adjust or slow down the time on their clock
- Playing themselves with multiple user names in order to increase their ratings.
Over the following months we will be adding a number of new anti-cheating features to protect ChessCube users.


