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However I wouldn’t give up on the idea, working in online poker for some years I know it’s possible to detect a perfect playing pattern with the use of a computer to prevent the use of bots even though they are pretty useless. So in theory it could be used for chess but proving it would be another problem.


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Where are you getting this from? I've never heard of computers being used in this way to detect poker bots. Partypoker, etc. detect bots by looking for evidence on your computer, not by analyzing your play AFAIK. I don't think it would be possible to detect poker bots by analyzing their play. I think it would be much easier to detect chess bots by anayzing their play, but I'm not sure how feasible even that is.

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The way most chess sites detect cheating is by looking at the programs running on your computer first, and if you don't have a chess computer running and they suspect you, they then look at the moves to determine if you cheated..

Most of the time this works, but if the person running the computer knows what he's doing, he can throw in 2nd and 3rd best moves in positions where it won't hurt that much, and this makes detecting a computer almost impossible.. To really do it right you need to be pretty good at chess, probably 2000+ level.