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Cheating scandals are shaking the chess world — but who’s really keeping watch?
Meet chess’s very own digital detective bureau led by GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko. Armed with cutting-edge algorithms, neural networks, and millions of games, they decide who’s clean… and who goes straight into the red basket.
But here’s the twist: sometimes the “perfect engine game” is not cheating at all — it’s a 100-year-old masterpiece by Alexander Alekhine.
In this episode, we dive into:
♟ The secrets of World Chess’s Night Watch anti-cheating system.
♟ How algorithms separate “red” suspect games from “green” clean ones.
♟ The fine line between genius and cheating.
♟ Why paranoia is just as dangerous for chess as cheaters themselves.
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Cheating scandals are shaking the chess world — but who’s really keeping watch?
Meet chess’s very own digital detective bureau led by GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko. Armed with cutting-edge algorithms, neural networks, and millions of games, they decide who’s clean… and who goes straight into the red basket.
But here’s the twist: sometimes the “perfect engine game” is not cheating at all — it’s a 100-year-old masterpiece by Alexander Alekhine.
In this episode, we dive into:
♟ The secrets of World Chess’s Night Watch anti-cheating system.
♟ How algorithms separate “red” suspect games from “green” clean ones.
♟ The fine line between genius and cheating.
♟ Why paranoia is just as dangerous for chess as cheaters themselves.
Media Attribution
This video includes images licensed under various Creative Commons licenses. All content has been used in accordance with the terms of those licenses.
Attribution has been provided as follows:
Photos
en.chessbase.com/post/baden-baden-1925-triumph-hypermodern - Public domain (free to use with no attribution)
Richard Reti by Hans Henschke/ullstein bild
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Alexandre_Alekhine_Color.jpg - Public Domain (free to use with no attribution)
