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Got accused of cheating for the first time today

Everything looks standard to me until black makes the mistake that costs him the game. No move makes me go wow. Maybe it's just me though.
Getting accused of cheating after a game is the highest honor an online chess player can receive.
#2

Yes, I didn't play anything special I thought. But whatever I said... didn't matter to the guy. He made his mind up right away: "computer use".

#3

I guess :)
"2600 fide" made my day. i guess i have plenty of 2600+ FIDE performance games, feels good man
Interesting game. Way to go.

Not here but at another website before I found this fantastic place some incompetent chess players would accuse me of cheating. They lost was because they knew almost nothing about chess.

My response was: I've been playing chess since 1961. I don't need to cheat to beat somebody like you.

I couldn't cheat even if I wanted to. I'm not that kind of person.
@feveraer

Your opponents queen was all over the place. A well deserved win for you and a nice finish. Well played. :-)
I'm pretty sure an engine wasn't used by either side for the following reasons.

1) White did not come out of the gates very strong. Around moves 9 and 10 seems like black has at least equalized, and is probably better. A good engine would open stronger than this.

2) 14... Bxc4 is an obvious error that wins a piece.

3) By the time the dust has settled on move 17 black has no counter play.

4) Black moved the queen way to often. Starting at move 10 black doesn't really do anything but make blunders, and dance the queen around. Not productive.

5) 20... g6 black was already in bad shape here, but this has to be one of the worst blunders I have ever seen. Sacrificing the knight in such a manner is the computers first choice, but at the same time it is blatantly obvious to any human player rated over 1000 in a fraction of a second to do so.

6) An engine would not be needed to punish such obvious mistakes.

If anything black used an engine to find the worst possible move on move 20, because I'm surprised a human could come up with such a horrible move.

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