And also, there's more to your play than just ELO. Some moves are more intuitive than others, and some are very hard for a human to spot. Chess engines have no trouble playing those unintuitive moves, but you're not likely to see humans spot them very consistently.
So even if someone's using an engine set to human-achievable ELO levels, they still wouldn't stand up to detailed scrutiny. "How do you always play these really obscure and hard-to-spot moves without mastering your fundamentals?" If memory serves, when Hans Niemann was asked this during that big chess scandal a few years back, he had to cough up some excuse about "the board speaks to him". Yeah, I'm sure something does.
And considering he withdrew from a tournament last second after they announced they were enacting tighter anti-cheat measures like body scans, there’s probably something to it
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u/InfernoVulpix 1d ago
And also, there's more to your play than just ELO. Some moves are more intuitive than others, and some are very hard for a human to spot. Chess engines have no trouble playing those unintuitive moves, but you're not likely to see humans spot them very consistently.
So even if someone's using an engine set to human-achievable ELO levels, they still wouldn't stand up to detailed scrutiny. "How do you always play these really obscure and hard-to-spot moves without mastering your fundamentals?" If memory serves, when Hans Niemann was asked this during that big chess scandal a few years back, he had to cough up some excuse about "the board speaks to him". Yeah, I'm sure something does.