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My friend Angus - frequent visitor here - points out an example when somebody did get banned for a number of Scholars mate games ... although in this case he was winning against his 5 year old brother who didn't know any better. https://twitter.com/angusjfrench/status/1383744413365534734 So it seems...

On twitter this morning Christof Sielecki reports an 'anti-Freddy' - somebody winning dozens of games in a row by scholars mate. These games spread over days ... and then 5 more after he tweeted this >> https://twitter.com/ChessExplained/status/1383681865471594499 About the experience he says, "Yea...

If anybody was wondering if Freddy is still plagued by mouse slips ... he is. No doubt 2 Bc4 was the intended move. [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/o6igh9Cj"] [Date "2021.04.17"] [White "freddy1963"] [Black "jmonar"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2021.04.17"] [UTCTime "19:27:09"] [W...

I make my share of mouseslips and I make plenty of one move blunders which are not mouseslips. I doubt whether the difference would be apparent even with photographic evidence. It has recently been suggested that Qxd7 was a mouse slip when in fact the person concerned meant to play Qd4. If it's pos...

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If Roddy McDowall isn't in it, I'm not watching it.

For clarity, I would watch any chess themed movie with Roddy McDowall in it. Or any ape themed movie with Roddy mcDowall in it. Or any movie at all in which apes play chess.

2001 has apes and chess. But not both together.

"I don't know why he spent over two minutes on move 3 in a five minute game, perhaps he had to answer the door, the internet went down or the dog started barking." I can confirm all of the above have made me spend weird time on a move, so you can't take that in isolation. .... Oh for sure. I've had...

Here's my game with him. Perfect theory - albeit after very curious thinking time on move 2 and 3 - then ... Well what would you call it? A lot of mouse slips? [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/jOEb5a7E"] [Date "2021.04.05"] [White "freddy1963"] [Black "jthechessb"] [Result "0-1"...

It would appear the player has been purposefully losing games, but I am not sure that you can say that they have been purposefully losing games to deflate or increase their rating. Well I have my own view on that - but as demonstrated above, it is not necessary to say that they have been purposeful...

Another factor is the bad habit, a bit like chasing your bets, of playing ‘one more game’, despite being tired and on a losing streak, and watching your rating plummet. That’s not cheating, it’s just playing badly That's true - but that's not what he's doing at the moment. For some time he's been i...

Over the last two days alone there's been at least ten deliberately lost games. That's not counting all losses. Just the very obvious ones when they either (a) resign after a few moves (b) resign in a winning position (c) deliberately give all their pieces away. Thinking about this I am not sure th...

Actually, having looked at his graph, this 'getting back to 1500' theory is simply wrong as an explanation as to what he's doing now. He has dropped back to around 1500 twice. May 2019 and August 2020. Over the last six months - despite all the deliberate losses - he's not been below 1850. I had no...

I don't really understand this, the player has zero tournament points, so why do we think he is choosing to lose so many games in a row? My suspicion is that this user has been deliberately losing games in order to get back to the 1500 starting rating in order to do a speedrun back up to his usual ...

He won the next three games which would again suggest he's not always deliberately trying to get his rating down to 1500. As it turns out the next game he played - about 45 minutes ago according to Lichess - he resigned rather than take his opponent's queen which was en prise. It's +14 -9 for Fred ...

As to whether it matters or not ... I would say our pal Freddy being banned or not matters an awful lot less than the very large difference to what LiChess say about their cheat detection and the reality of cheat detection on LiChess. Every game I post - and it's only a matter of a few seconds' work...

Played around an hour ago according to LiChess. He won the next three games which would again suggest he's not always deliberately trying to get his rating down to 1500. [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/0uKSPcg3"] [Date "2021.04.10"] [White "freddy1963"] [Black "Alexei19831"] [R...