Chess Pro Explains How to Spot Cheaters (ft. GothamChess) | WIRED

"Only a bot would play that!" Sacrificing a Queen in chess is a move you're much more likely to see a bot make as opposed to a human, as humans want to protect the game's most valuable piece. In the wake of the recent chess cheating scandal, Levy Rozman from GothamChess explains how you actually cheat at chess. Using artificial intelligence, see how people use everything from bathroom cell phones to ear pieces to try to skirt the rules and gain an edge.


Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Louville Moore
Talent: Levy Rozman

Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Samantha Vélez
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila

Camera Operator: Corey Eisenstein
Audio: Brett Van Deusen
Production Assistant: Patrick Sargent

Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Ben Harowitz


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[GothamChess]

Thanks so much for having me, Wired! :)

[pauldraper]

The most suspicious moves are not sacrificial moves, but weird positional stuff.

Like moving the queen back one space because 5 moves later it's gonna save you a tempo.

[TheSuperImmortalKing]

I sacrifice my queen all the time and nobody has accused me of being a bot. Just because I lose my game, doesn't mean I'm not cheating.

[lorddarthvader]

Me : " Blunders my Queen"
Levy : He sacrificed the Queen. Only a bot can come up with that move.

[risingscum]

One time I was playing against a guy and as I was about to checkmate he pulled out a comically large pawn and knocked down all my pieces and then told me I got pawned. I think he might have been cheating but idk, he said it was a hidden rule.

[anirbanchakraborty]

Levy is so consistent that he has started posting on other channels too.
Incredible

[cmd]

I just love how if you're called a bot in literally any other game, it means you're really bad.

But in chess, it means you're amazing

[kilorl.]

Levy in this video: "sacrificing pieces is something a human would never do, those moves are very bot-like"
Levy on his main channel: THE

[somerandomdudefes]

That example felt more like a normal chess puzzle than a cheater scenario, but other than that, great video.

[hexagonk]

As an AI, I can affirm his statements are indeed solid.

[ultimatestuff]

0:09 does make some sense because it’s checkmate in only 2, however a human would probably sac the bishop instead of queen but I think it’s because psychologically an opponent is way more likely to take a queen than bishop

[SchadenfreudeUY]

0:54 3 huge questions
1. why does a treadmill have chess
2. why does it's chess contain a GM level AI
3. where can I get one

[trampy]

Levy is just such a great chess player, both professionally and on stream and video. Congrats for getting onto wired!

[mrfake]

Levy has really come so far, I'm really proud of him.

[ultimamateria]

The first mate he used is actually a pretty common mating pattern, the sacrifice is nice but the double bishop mate is a bodens mate and ive practiced it a lot on lichess, i could totes see a player spotting that move

[digital]

‘A human would never play that move’

Me who makes random moves: you have yet to reach my level

[maxkappert]

Tbh Levy explained it very well but the example could have been chosen better

[roottwo]

That was literally the most tame queen "sacrifice" ever. A human would absolutely play that move.

[robertzeurunkl]

Queen to D5 is actually a BRILLIANT move. It's Mate in 4.

[larsf]

To be fair, at 0:01 there is no safe square for the Queen...
And you would only have tonlook 2 moves ahead.
That move alone seems very reasonable to me.