It isn’t just the super grandmasters who get annoyed about people cheating online, it’s every single one of us who plays online and doesn’t cheat, no matter how much we struggle, no matter how lost the game looks.
Those of us who are keen enough to learn in the honest and proper fashion use a chess engine only after our games to better understand where we went wrong and the pickles we got ourselves into. I’m sure Stephen Moss, who admits using a chess engine for the first 15 moves during online games, could try this (Confessions of a serial chess cheat: I’m quite enjoying the Carlsen v Niemann fallout, 8 October).
