2020: The year of a pandemic of cheating in online chess

2020: The year of a pandemic of cheating in online chess

[Hwan Cho] In this article, it discusses not only the rise of chess during the pandemic but also the cases of cheating during online chess matches. As a result, many online platforms like chess.com have turned to creative measures to prevent cheating.

In August, chess.com, the biggest of the online chess platforms, said closure rates of accounts had more than doubled since the covid-19 outbreak in December 2019. (iStockPhoto) 2020 has been a unique year for chess. In the first half, as countries across the world went into lockdowns to stem […]

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