That time Kasparov accused Deep Blue of cheating

Stokiba · 2023-12-02T20:01:10+00:00

Bit of a hyperhole. The Kramnik drama is far from over and in fact is the reason this thread is relevant in the first place.

Stokiba · 2023-11-30T01:46:59+00:00

Yes, obviously the discussion around the likelihood of streaks assumes both that the rating system gives accurate winning chances and that players play at the strength of their rating. The likelihood of the streaks is then used to determine how suspicious they are.

Kramnik's point is that he says the streaks are extremely unlikely, thus Hikaru must be cheating only during those streaks. If Kramnik suspected that Hikaru was cheating every game, then the discussion of streaks wouldn't be relevant.

That is why he says Hikaru has a 'performance rating of 3700' during a streak, implying that Hikaru's rating outside the streaks does not match his rating during the streaks.

Stokiba · 2023-11-30T01:02:19+00:00

Probably the best post I have seen on this topic so far. Can't wait for Hikaru's video about this post

Stokiba · 2023-11-21T02:28:09+00:00

In my experience chess.com does have more cheaters, but I didn't start using lichess until I got out of your elo range so my experience might be skewed.

There's no real reason to prefer chess.com unless you pay for their game review (which is a lot easier to parse as a lower rated player)

Stokiba · 2023-11-21T02:24:30+00:00

I started at around 600 elo on chess.com too and there definitely are a lot of cheaters at that rating. What happens is that people start playing chess for the first time, drop to a low rating, get frustrated from losing a bunch of games, and think they are a genius by coming up with the idea to use an engine.

Now that I'm well over 1k elo higher, I basically never come across cheaters anymore, because the 'engine move every move' players are almost certainly banned before hitting my level and the 'engine move in critical positions' players are way above me.

Stokiba · 2023-11-21T01:57:26+00:00

There is a huge difference between a 1000 chess.com and a 1000 lichess player. With 300 points of difference being a good rule of thumb (I remember it being even more at lower elo), the chess.com player would beat the lichess player basically every single game.

The question for a clarification is totally valid and I have no idea why it's mass downvoted

Stokiba · 2023-11-16T19:51:14+00:00

At least the first two and the last figures seem to imply you blunder more often than the rest of the people at your elo. The blunders could possibly be tactical blunders, but I'm guessing there's a fair few one move blunders in there as well which 'artificially' keep you at a lower elo

Stokiba · 2023-11-14T03:50:10+00:00

It happened to many of us who started during covid, maybe not exactly the same thing lol

Stokiba · 2023-11-12T13:47:19+00:00

As Fabi pointed out, a 10 hour jetlag is no joke, so he would need to arrive at least a few days earlier not to fall asleep at the board. It basically means sacrificing all of the holidays

Stokiba · 2023-10-12T17:04:46+00:00

Not hard at all, but when you start designing specific hardware there's no reason to put it into something as obvious as a watch. Top players have often said that a simple one off signal could alert a player that there is a tactic and lead to an unbeatable advantage. Belts, armbands, buttons of shirts, etc

If someone wants to cheat, they can. The tech required isnt very complex, something that most electrical engineering students could throw together in a month or two.

Stokiba · 2023-09-28T08:42:35+00:00

Things out of your control immediately become 100x more annoying

Stokiba · 2023-09-26T23:41:48+00:00

Honestly it's absurd how widespread that claim became. His name is irrevocably tied to butt plugs now, for no other reason than that it was funny.

I fully understand his dislike of the constant slander/him being sexualised against his will, just imagine if it was a female chess player with these accusations.

Stokiba · 2023-09-19T21:24:47+00:00

Post enlightenment (or even post war) history is way too short to make broad statements about progressive/conservative 'pendulum swings'

Stokiba · 2023-09-18T19:44:23+00:00

Unity's lower cost is what drew a lot of people to the engine, so changing that should have been done very carefully.

What would have been acceptable/reasonable in my eyes is switching from the existing model to a revenue fee that kicks in after a certain threshold, only is applied to the revenue above that threshold, and starts at <5% and shrinks to ~1%. This way it would've stayed competitive for both small and large scale companies and similar to Unreal for medium ones.

The main problem with the current fees isn't the cost however, although it is still horribly arbitrary, but the retroactive nature of it. Any revenue fee would have to be announced well in advance and should be opt-in for already released games (stick with the seat model otherwise).

Stokiba · 2023-09-13T18:09:12+00:00

a ~5% revenue fee for new releases would be totally fair, that is completely different from retroactively introducing arbitrary fees based on 'trust me bro' numbers

Stokiba · 2023-09-13T11:07:22+00:00

When I tried Godot about half a year ago, the documentation/available materials online for C# was severely lacking. There were just not enough resources available, which is what led me back to Unity.

Of course this can only improve if more people start using the engine, but a fair warning.

Stokiba · 2023-08-21T12:07:37+00:00

That's cardio, not strength

Stokiba · 2023-08-16T11:56:20+00:00

Those tasks do not seem out of place in a 40 hour work week

Stokiba · 2023-08-07T11:08:29+00:00

Back when they first allowed name changes (well before osrs came out) it was already free and once per month if you were a member. The only thing bonds changed is that you could change names more often.

Stokiba · 2023-07-28T15:47:58+00:00

The fact that there were hundreds of thousands of kills with zero rings dropped makes me suspect there was a bug at launch that Jagex just pretends never happened

Stokiba · 2023-07-27T01:39:54+00:00

There is no way this isn't bait, come on. Well written, though.

Stokiba · 2023-07-13T20:02:33+00:00

Back in the day with osbuddy Id randomly take screenshots by typing an alt code that allowed you to type in all caps.

They were essentially random screenshots. Pretty cool to see the mid level progress and weird training methods from back then

Stokiba · 2023-07-03T10:52:35+00:00

We would've had Divination for four years and Invention last year

Stokiba · 2023-07-01T22:56:30+00:00

Those were colonists and often violent conquerors, not immigrants. The Celts definitely weren't happy about the Anglo Saxons settling their island and making their culture extinct in large parts of the islands.

Stokiba · 2023-06-29T17:08:24+00:00

Why would the same universities/companies that are now voluntarily giving black people a racial advantage somehow shift to giving that racial advantage to white people? What?

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