Personally I feel as though Lichess has exceptional bot detection. I just watched the tournament where a bot users, FellerDeep, was caught within an hour. Definitely applaud the efforts so far. Cheaters suck, but they are of course a reality of online play today.
But I am curious, what efforts Lichess has considered to further deter potential cheaters from playing tournaments? The BitChess tournament was a paid tournament. A very awesome contender whose name I won't repeat was very clearly frustrated playing against the cheater FellerDeep and quit the tournament as a result.
Whatever your feelings are regarding the well-known GM Wesley So incident, it is undoubtedly a shame that cheaters are so easily able to mix themselves in with the more legitimate parts of our community.
I personally am against anything such as credit card verification or anything that is personally identifiable. Some players enjoy their anonymity. But what would the problem be with a "minimum time on an account/minimum number of games played" before one could compete in a tournament? It seems like a fairly unobtrusive way of maintaining the integrity of the more important function of this site i.e. tournaments, and especially paid ones.
FellerDerp only had an account for less than a few hours. A delay on new accounts so the bot detecting features could have done their job would have easily avoided this.
But I am curious, what efforts Lichess has considered to further deter potential cheaters from playing tournaments? The BitChess tournament was a paid tournament. A very awesome contender whose name I won't repeat was very clearly frustrated playing against the cheater FellerDeep and quit the tournament as a result.
Whatever your feelings are regarding the well-known GM Wesley So incident, it is undoubtedly a shame that cheaters are so easily able to mix themselves in with the more legitimate parts of our community.
I personally am against anything such as credit card verification or anything that is personally identifiable. Some players enjoy their anonymity. But what would the problem be with a "minimum time on an account/minimum number of games played" before one could compete in a tournament? It seems like a fairly unobtrusive way of maintaining the integrity of the more important function of this site i.e. tournaments, and especially paid ones.
FellerDerp only had an account for less than a few hours. A delay on new accounts so the bot detecting features could have done their job would have easily avoided this.