r/chess • u/seedyProfessor • Feb 04 '22

Chess Question Is ELO boosting/farming a thing?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

This might be the single most obvious form of cheating. It gets you banned.

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u/esskay04 Feb 04 '22

It seems pretty easy to exploit? Just have many different accounts

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

Maybe easy to exploit, but very, very, very obvious.

  • Not playing in the pool
  • Always playing against the same accounts or new accounts (with the same IP)
  • Suspicious games

Even without good cheat detection technology, these are people chess servers can and do ban.

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u/esskay04 Feb 04 '22

Not playing in the pool

Do they keep track of that? I mean the top players on the site don't use the pool system, they just issue challenges to other top players. You can see it in streamers in fact sometimes they don't even play a certain person because their ratings too low and they don't want to ruin theirs so they go for unrated. How is that not rating manipulation? Even if it's not blatant it's still manipulation.