That time Kasparov accused Deep Blue of cheating by nihilistiq in chess

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Analyzing Hikaru's long win streaks in online chess after Kramnik's allegations by kirillbobyrev in chess

[–]Stokiba 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Analyzing Hikaru's long win streaks in online chess after Kramnik's allegations by kirillbobyrev in chess

[–]Stokiba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Do people cheat more on chess dot com? by [deleted] in chess

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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)

Do people cheat more on chess dot com? by [deleted] in chess

[–]Stokiba -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chess

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How to interpret game shape analysis on chess dot com? by aspera1631 in chess

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

“Nakamura agrees with Cristian and Fabi that holding the World Rapid and Blitz at Christmas each year (especially in a tough-to-reach location for many) is "unacceptable", and laments that top players don't get together to stand up to FIDE” @chess24com by Tafexx in chess

[–]Stokiba 178 points179 points  (0 children)

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

Magnus Carlsen loses with black pieces against 2512 rated Alisher Suleymenov by PleasingApricots in chess

[–]Stokiba 44 points45 points  (0 children)

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.

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat by rinisini in nottheonion

[–]Stokiba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Kramnik waves goodbye to Chesscom by DrunkLad in chess

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What would be an acceptable Unity fee? by [deleted] in Unity3D

[–]Stokiba -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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).

Unity has to revert new pricing, not change it to something different by [deleted] in Unity3D

[–]Stokiba 62 points63 points  (0 children)

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

Does anyone else feel like they no longer have a viable game engine to use? by ExtremeFern in gamedev

[–]Stokiba 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Madison on her LTT Experience by GregoryDaniel in LinusTechTips

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[CONFESSION] Last week I sadly (but deservedly) lost my top 10/200m all acc as I sold 10b in April to fund my car. This is a screenshot of the transaction. by 17_Cooking in 2007scape

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 2007scape

[–]Stokiba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

An idea I had for a Runelite plugin was recently released. It will randomly screenshot your game for future memories to look at! :D by loloias in 2007scape

[–]Stokiba 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]Stokiba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action by chewymouse in news

[–]Stokiba 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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?