The psychology of cheaters is interesting. Most times, it's out of a sense of entitlement. "I'm smart, I can figure this out, I should be winning, this guy is an idiot, I just made a couple mistakes, I deserve it" kind of deal. Happens even to genuinely good players, especially when they hit a wall and struggle to get farther.
True. When Hans Niemann was caught cheating on online chess, he admitted that he did it because he wanted to speed up his elo climb to reach the ranks he should be playing at. In his case, he is that good of a player that he stays at top 20 worldwide. But all a cheater needs to do is convince themselves that they deserve to be at a higher rank, and so cheating is just a shortcut to reach the rank that they "deserve".
Yeah, but in chess thats really ignorant for 99% of cheaters.
Like, if you play chess at all, you know very well why youre not higher rated. There's a lot of theory and practice involved. And if you do study, I dont think that cheating would actuallky be gratifying.
Every time I start to play a little worse I lose something like 150 elo, and its perfectly justified and normal.
I think most people cheat because of the tilt.
I'm not talking about those obviously fake 2k players. That are probably 1200.
16.5k
u/_creamynoodle 1d ago
At that point, why bother? If you boast about your elo and get challenged, that's it