Cheaters' archives
@vladislavtkachev demonstrating how easy it is to cheat even in OTB games
In this post AlphaZero era, no human is near a cutting edge engine in it's full strength. Even a titled player is likely to lose in a game against an 3n61n3 m0nk3y. However, the numerous banned accounts and their online game archives could be a useful resource to look at. Engine vs engine games or GM level games don't really help at my level. It's like watching birds fly when I've just learned to walk. On the other hand, games between your average 1500s are like a mix of blunders and no strategy random moves. Thus going through games where engines punish ppl about my level could be more practical help and also a bit of fun. It would be somewhat equivalent to that of reviewing an engine's speedrun. In fact, there happens to be an epic thread on Cheating Forum that collects these accounts.
According to @hellokostya, you need to let the engine run at least to depth 30 to get relatively reliable move suggestions. So just keep in mind that the moves these accounts have made is probably not the most ideal move, since the default depth is around 20 for most browser built in engines, but just a decent move good enough to defeat majority anonymous online players.
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Talking about archives, here are some list of notable cheat related incidents, some of which are also mentioned on Wikipedia.
& a list of games from chess.com involving celebrities
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Finally, there is a good blog post describing the method of cheating and how incidence of cheating is greatly exaggerated by @samcopeland.
It's also fun to check out Chess.com Month in Review: September 2021: where the number of accounts closed for fair play being almost only a half of that for abuse.
