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Chess.com and Lichess differ in how they handle accounts they determine to be cheating. Chess.com publicly issues permanent bans, visible as a crossed red circle icon next to the names of banned users. [1] In addition, the site refunds the rating points of players who have recently lost games to banned accounts. [11]
At the 2013 Cork Congress Chess Open, a 16-year-old player was found to be using a chess program on a smartphone when his opponent confronted him in the toilets by kicking down the cubicle door and physically hauling him out. The opponent received a ten-month ban for violent conduct. The 16-year-old player was banned for four months for cheating.
James V. Eade (born March 23, 1957) is an American chess master, chess administrator, chess tournament organizer, and chess book publisher. He holds the title of FIDE Master . He is best known for the books Chess for Dummies (1996) and The Chess Player's Bible (2004), both of which have been through multiple editions and been translated into ...
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ICS formed the basis for the first commercial chess server, the Internet Chess Club, which was launched in 1995, and for other early chess servers such as Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Since then, many other platforms have appeared, and online chess began to rival over-the-board chess in popularity.
Kenneth Wingate Regan is an American professor, chess player, statistician, and computer scientist. [1] He is an expert in anti-cheating in chess, and was involved in investigating known cheaters such as Sébastien Feller , Borislav Ivanov , and Igors Rausis .
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. [3] One of the largest chess platforms in the world, [4] the site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...