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Hello,
I'm sorry for replying with such a delay. After Mark told me, I wrote an email to the lichess admins to get some feedback, but nothing arrived until now. So I don't wait any longer.
My account here was marked as cheating, and this is correct, since I was cheating.
During the last two years, I learned a lot about chess what I didn't know before, and so many things changed for my play, e.g. I got much stronger in endgames and also in evaluating small advantages. But I also found out that my new skills don't match my openings any more. When I play against stronger players, I just often get out of the openings with disadvantage, and so they often just kill me or I have an eternal fight for a draw.
So I decided to build a new opening repertoire. I use a program with name Chess Position Trainer to build up new trees for certain openings. I tested them against computers. But as you know, people play differently, and so computers are only of limited help in this area.
This was one of the reasons why I came to lichess, mostly for testing and getting more training with the new openings I would like to play and also find out problems I didn't cover before.
But some openings failed for me, and I omitted them, and tried new ones, and did a lot of work to built new opening trees, with help from youtube and chessbase. But the data got very big in no time, and I wasn't any more able to learn all of them by heart or was unsure if I mixed up something. so I looked up the opening the chess position trainer and also used information from it during several games (I don't remember the number exactly, but about 20-40). At first, I didn't consider this as cheating, because I didn't use an engine or opening book, but only used information that I prepared and collected by myself and put a lot of work in. But since I used it in rated lichess games and without asking my opponent if this ok (since I didn't bother about my lichess rating, but others care for theirs), it is cheating. I am really sorry about it and want to appologize at you and the opponents I played without warning them.
Another point why the cheating detector caught me might be (I don't know) that I like to play a couple of games before going to bed or just after getting up. And there sometimes I did stupid blunders which don't match my play level just because I was tired. If you look at many games I lost, you will see what I mean. But I don't know if this is a criteria, and lichess won't tell me.
A friend who plays at ICS or however this is called told me from a discussion there: at ICS, it's possible to detect if an engine is running on a local PC. In my spare time, I am writing a little chess program which should be a good help for training, and matching my needs better than chessbase or other programs (e.g. to automatically visualize information like imbalances and the like). I added the newest stockfish engine to this to be able to play against and use it for analyzis.
Since I did the engine integration a bit sloppy (my focus was on different things), it could happen that the stockfish.exe stays running if I killed the programm manually or with a programming error that appeared during runtime, and it could happen that there were several engines running as zombies.
But since lichess only uses the webbrowser, I don't think that this point applies, because I think it's not possible to find out from a web page which processes are running. But I'm not really up-to-date at web programming, I don't know if this is possible with flash or the like, but don't think so.
I know I did wrong on lichess, and I am sorry for it.
I will delete this account in lichess and get a new one, and will change my errors.
Best regards,
Perl
BTW: I have never cheated in SL or RL tournaments or other games (except 2 games against Tristy's chess computer, because I wanted to find out how the use of an engine influences the game style). In SL, I usually played my old openings like e4 or Najdorf Sicilian/Stonewall and didn't use any other help than my brain and a lot of coffee.
I'm sorry for replying with such a delay. After Mark told me, I wrote an email to the lichess admins to get some feedback, but nothing arrived until now. So I don't wait any longer.
My account here was marked as cheating, and this is correct, since I was cheating.
During the last two years, I learned a lot about chess what I didn't know before, and so many things changed for my play, e.g. I got much stronger in endgames and also in evaluating small advantages. But I also found out that my new skills don't match my openings any more. When I play against stronger players, I just often get out of the openings with disadvantage, and so they often just kill me or I have an eternal fight for a draw.
So I decided to build a new opening repertoire. I use a program with name Chess Position Trainer to build up new trees for certain openings. I tested them against computers. But as you know, people play differently, and so computers are only of limited help in this area.
This was one of the reasons why I came to lichess, mostly for testing and getting more training with the new openings I would like to play and also find out problems I didn't cover before.
But some openings failed for me, and I omitted them, and tried new ones, and did a lot of work to built new opening trees, with help from youtube and chessbase. But the data got very big in no time, and I wasn't any more able to learn all of them by heart or was unsure if I mixed up something. so I looked up the opening the chess position trainer and also used information from it during several games (I don't remember the number exactly, but about 20-40). At first, I didn't consider this as cheating, because I didn't use an engine or opening book, but only used information that I prepared and collected by myself and put a lot of work in. But since I used it in rated lichess games and without asking my opponent if this ok (since I didn't bother about my lichess rating, but others care for theirs), it is cheating. I am really sorry about it and want to appologize at you and the opponents I played without warning them.
Another point why the cheating detector caught me might be (I don't know) that I like to play a couple of games before going to bed or just after getting up. And there sometimes I did stupid blunders which don't match my play level just because I was tired. If you look at many games I lost, you will see what I mean. But I don't know if this is a criteria, and lichess won't tell me.
A friend who plays at ICS or however this is called told me from a discussion there: at ICS, it's possible to detect if an engine is running on a local PC. In my spare time, I am writing a little chess program which should be a good help for training, and matching my needs better than chessbase or other programs (e.g. to automatically visualize information like imbalances and the like). I added the newest stockfish engine to this to be able to play against and use it for analyzis.
Since I did the engine integration a bit sloppy (my focus was on different things), it could happen that the stockfish.exe stays running if I killed the programm manually or with a programming error that appeared during runtime, and it could happen that there were several engines running as zombies.
But since lichess only uses the webbrowser, I don't think that this point applies, because I think it's not possible to find out from a web page which processes are running. But I'm not really up-to-date at web programming, I don't know if this is possible with flash or the like, but don't think so.
I know I did wrong on lichess, and I am sorry for it.
I will delete this account in lichess and get a new one, and will change my errors.
Best regards,
Perl
BTW: I have never cheated in SL or RL tournaments or other games (except 2 games against Tristy's chess computer, because I wanted to find out how the use of an engine influences the game style). In SL, I usually played my old openings like e4 or Najdorf Sicilian/Stonewall and didn't use any other help than my brain and a lot of coffee.
Hello,
I'm sorry for replying with such a delay. After Mark told me, I wrote an email to the lichess admins to get some feedback, but nothing arrived until now. So I don't wait any longer.
My old account here was marked as cheating, and this is correct, since I was cheating.
During the last two years, I learned a lot about chess what I didn't know before, and so many things changed for my play, e.g. I got much stronger in endgames and also in evaluating small advantages. But I also found out that my new skills don't match my openings any more. When I play against stronger players, I just often get out of the openings with disadvantage, and so they often just kill me or I have an eternal fight for a draw.
So I decided to build a new opening repertoire. I use a program with name Chess Position Trainer to build up new trees for certain openings. I tested them against computers. But as you know, people play differently, and so computers are only of limited help in this area.
This was one of the reasons why I came to lichess, mostly for testing and getting more training with the new openings I would like to play and also find out problems I didn't cover before.
But some openings failed for me, and I omitted them, and tried new ones, and did a lot of work to built new opening trees, with help from youtube and chessbase. But the data got very big in no time, and I wasn't any more able to learn all of them by heart or was unsure if I mixed up something. so I looked up the opening the chess position trainer and also used information from it during several games (I don't remember the number exactly, but about 20-40). At first, I didn't consider this as cheating, because I didn't use an engine or opening book, but only used information that I prepared and collected by myself and put a lot of work in. But since I used it in rated lichess games and without asking my opponent if this ok (since I didn't bother about my lichess rating, but others care for theirs), it is cheating. I am really sorry about it and want to appologize at you and the opponents I played without warning them.
Another point why the cheating detector caught me might be (I don't know) that I like to play a couple of games before going to bed or just after getting up. And there sometimes I did stupid blunders which don't match my play level just because I was tired. If you look at many games I lost, you will see what I mean. But I don't know if this is a criteria, and lichess won't tell me.
A friend who plays at ICS or however this is called told me from a discussion there: at ICS, it's possible to detect if an engine is running on a local PC. In my spare time, I am writing a little chess program which should be a good help for training, and matching my needs better than chessbase or other programs (e.g. to automatically visualize information like imbalances and the like). I added the newest stockfish engine to this to be able to play against and use it for analyzis.
Since I did the engine integration a bit sloppy (my focus was on different things), it could happen that the stockfish.exe stays running if I killed the programm manually or with a programming error that appeared during runtime, and it could happen that there were several engines running as zombies.
But since lichess only uses the webbrowser, I don't think that this point applies, because I think it's not possible to find out from a web page which processes are running. But I'm not really up-to-date at web programming, I don't know if this is possible with flash or the like, but don't think so.
I know I did wrong on lichess, and I am sorry for it.
I deleted the old account in lichess and got a new one, and will change my errors.
Best regards,
Perl
BTW: I have never cheated in SL or RL tournaments or other games (except 2 games against Tristy's chess computer, because I wanted to find out how the use of an engine influences the game style). In SL, I usually played my old openings like e4 or Najdorf Sicilian/Stonewall and didn't use any other help than my brain and a lot of coffee.
I'm sorry for replying with such a delay. After Mark told me, I wrote an email to the lichess admins to get some feedback, but nothing arrived until now. So I don't wait any longer.
My old account here was marked as cheating, and this is correct, since I was cheating.
During the last two years, I learned a lot about chess what I didn't know before, and so many things changed for my play, e.g. I got much stronger in endgames and also in evaluating small advantages. But I also found out that my new skills don't match my openings any more. When I play against stronger players, I just often get out of the openings with disadvantage, and so they often just kill me or I have an eternal fight for a draw.
So I decided to build a new opening repertoire. I use a program with name Chess Position Trainer to build up new trees for certain openings. I tested them against computers. But as you know, people play differently, and so computers are only of limited help in this area.
This was one of the reasons why I came to lichess, mostly for testing and getting more training with the new openings I would like to play and also find out problems I didn't cover before.
But some openings failed for me, and I omitted them, and tried new ones, and did a lot of work to built new opening trees, with help from youtube and chessbase. But the data got very big in no time, and I wasn't any more able to learn all of them by heart or was unsure if I mixed up something. so I looked up the opening the chess position trainer and also used information from it during several games (I don't remember the number exactly, but about 20-40). At first, I didn't consider this as cheating, because I didn't use an engine or opening book, but only used information that I prepared and collected by myself and put a lot of work in. But since I used it in rated lichess games and without asking my opponent if this ok (since I didn't bother about my lichess rating, but others care for theirs), it is cheating. I am really sorry about it and want to appologize at you and the opponents I played without warning them.
Another point why the cheating detector caught me might be (I don't know) that I like to play a couple of games before going to bed or just after getting up. And there sometimes I did stupid blunders which don't match my play level just because I was tired. If you look at many games I lost, you will see what I mean. But I don't know if this is a criteria, and lichess won't tell me.
A friend who plays at ICS or however this is called told me from a discussion there: at ICS, it's possible to detect if an engine is running on a local PC. In my spare time, I am writing a little chess program which should be a good help for training, and matching my needs better than chessbase or other programs (e.g. to automatically visualize information like imbalances and the like). I added the newest stockfish engine to this to be able to play against and use it for analyzis.
Since I did the engine integration a bit sloppy (my focus was on different things), it could happen that the stockfish.exe stays running if I killed the programm manually or with a programming error that appeared during runtime, and it could happen that there were several engines running as zombies.
But since lichess only uses the webbrowser, I don't think that this point applies, because I think it's not possible to find out from a web page which processes are running. But I'm not really up-to-date at web programming, I don't know if this is possible with flash or the like, but don't think so.
I know I did wrong on lichess, and I am sorry for it.
I deleted the old account in lichess and got a new one, and will change my errors.
Best regards,
Perl
BTW: I have never cheated in SL or RL tournaments or other games (except 2 games against Tristy's chess computer, because I wanted to find out how the use of an engine influences the game style). In SL, I usually played my old openings like e4 or Najdorf Sicilian/Stonewall and didn't use any other help than my brain and a lot of coffee.
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