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Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-20)
Cheating / Forfeiting

Hello to all.

The website detected 2 'probable' cheaters registered (one playing), with a 1400 rating.

Of course, FICGS will face problems encountered by all correspondence chess sites but I think it will be minimal here, as I'm enforcing detection rules so that aliases couldn't register anymore.

Important : Games forfeited without a valid explanation won't be rated, and the account for the player closed. A player who may forfeit should send an email with explanation to : ficgs (at) ficgs.com

Thanks.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-20 15:12:34)
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All games played against Daniel Grecu (forfeit) won't be rated in this tournament. Sorry about that.


Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-24 11:00:22)
Forfeit , 2006 April 24

Paul-Iosif forfeited all his running games. Only games 87, 149 and 150 will be unrated. (too few moves played)

Sorry about that.


Herbert Kruse    (2025-07-24 09:12:23)
Cheating / Forfeiting

is there a process to detect it today?


Ulises Pineda    (2025-08-05 01:14:13)
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I've seen many games recently where the games are lost on time in equal positions, by players that let their clock run until they have 0 days and then play from the increment. But they seem random, so not sure.


Herbert Kruse    (2025-08-25 11:02:18)
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if they are random, they should banned from tournament and all games should be nulled, so that is still a fair tournament


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 14:58:16)
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@Unlise Pineda, I do not think those situations are random. Because last one month, at least once, I had 3 or 4 games by "different" players, that have been doing so (letting their time run down to around one day or less) when I got all of their moves within 5 or 10 minutes of one another, very strange.


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 14:59:40)
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Pech/Pechova, I'm looking at you


George Jempty    (2025-10-05 21:02:56)
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The only explanation I can think of is that they are all friends/family and can only access the internet every so often, and do so at the same time. But that seems pretty far-fetched


George Jempty    (2025-10-07 17:20:01)
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You know what angers me about these players, is that I entered a tournament when one of them was around 2150 and me around 2000, and I stood to GAIN rating points by drawing. Well they've forfeited a bunch of games and there rating is down to close to 2000, whereas my latest rating was 2125, and my future rating is over 2150 at the moment. So now if I only draw against them I stand to LOSE rating points, unless they forfeit against me, which may or may not happen,


Thibault de Vassal    (2025-10-27 18:45:17)
Cheating / Forfeiting

I understand... I'll have a look at that soon.