Oh, an addendum to my last post. I don't ever want to have the distinct feeling that my opponent is cheating whilst I am sweating over a hot virtual board.
Sorry, cheaters out! Chess.com well done for having such integrity.
Cheaters 0 Intergrity 1 Well played!!
madpwan it could be that they are way better at you or what i mean is they are more talented players or it could mean they have a better strategy than you
Mike, there's 65 odd pages on how sites like Chess.com catch cheating.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/chesscom-policy-on-cheating
It's not conjecture, just pure analysis of their games. I'd suggest you make further comments and questions in that thread 
cheating at online chess seems to be about the most spineless thing a person could do. don't get me wrong, i get that it doesn't change the world, but it just sucks. i work my ass off at this game--i study and read and practice and study more and play and practice and on and on and it really blows me away that some A-HOLE sits in his little hole and uses a computer to make himself look better than me. me?!?! it's useless, i'm a 1500 player. just play the GD game. if you lose, you lose. if you win! awesome! build on either. practice more, read more study more. this 100% intolerance against cheaters policy is my favorite thing about chess.com. keep it up erik and the rest of the staff. cheaters die! (metaphorically speaking of course)
C'mon, ilikeflags, 100% intolerance? How 'bout:
Ouachita Blunders-away Win ???????????????????????????????
Very mature, and it also shows what it takes to be a real man. God Bless whoever that is, and i wish them the best.
This is why I don't think it should have been made public. This guy has now been given more credit than the vast majority of the chess.com community that has never set a foot out of line!
Yes he is being given credit here for maturity Suggo. But not to take away from the poor decision he made. At least he has a conscience.... How many cheaters left this site and didn't give it a second thought.... and probably came back to cheat again under a new name.... At least he has said he won't do this... and I believe him 100% that he won't.
What maturity?
P.S I agree with Suggo entirely.
I admire the apology the way I admire what Andy Pettitte did.
I still hate the Yankees.
cheating at online chess seems to be about the most spineless thing a person could do. don't get me wrong, i get that it doesn't change the world, but it just sucks. i work my ass off at this game--i study and read and practice and study more and play and practice and on and on and it really blows me away that some A-HOLE sits in his little hole and uses a computer to make himself look better than me. me?!?! it's useless, i'm a 1500 player. just play the GD game. if you lose, you lose. if you win! awesome! build on either. practice more, read more study more. this 100% intolerance against cheaters policy is my favorite thing about chess.com. keep it up erik and the rest of the staff. cheaters die! (metaphorically speaking of course)
C'mon, ilikeflags, 100% intolerance? How 'bout:
Ouachita Blunders-away Win ???????????????????????????????
Kepler's posts are alread deleted from the thread
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/nostradamus-demise
so I wonder how incoherent it will look with 'chita's gone too?
I admire the apology the way I admire what Andy Pettitte did.
I still hate the Yankees.
Did that apology garner four world series rings, or something? 
Damned Yankees.
Very mature, and it also shows what it takes to be a real man. God Bless whoever that is, and i wish them the best.
This is why I don't think it should have been made public. This guy has now been given more credit than the vast majority of the chess.com community that has never set a foot out of line!
Yes he is being given credit here for maturity Suggo. But not to take away from the poor decision he made. At least he has a conscience.... How many cheaters left this site and didn't give it a second thought.... and probably came back to cheat again under a new name.... At least he has said he won't do this... and I believe him 100% that he won't.
What maturity?
Are you going to say the same thing to Erik Kupov, who also says Anton is showing great maturity here? Or you are just going to target me because I have you blocked and you can't find another place to have a go at me?
Yes I am going to say it to anyone in this thread who thinks that Lizard87 (WHO I LIKED QUITE A BIT) acted with maturity.
He was a nice guy, but he made his own bed.
P.S. Do you really think that someone disagreeing with you is "having a go" at you?
I notice that after pouring scorn on the top 3 matchup method in the forum (and actually suggesting that weaker players may have higher matchup rates than GM's!) Kepler is gone as well.
Wow! I remember reading Kepler's continuous garbage about how beginners might statistically match up more to chess programs' top choices than seasoned GM's... and he quoted endless Statistical theory to back him up. I guess all to cover up the fact that he was using a program. HAHAHAHA
As for Anton, the guy who this thread was started about. I give him credit for showing more class than the average cheater after he was caught, but that's about it. He had to get caught before he outwardly showed his remorse. I don't doubt he was embattled about the issue, but who knows if his behavior would have stopped had he not gotten caught? Sure, it's a shame to lose his contributions to the site, but he knew the rules better than anyone. In the end, he's just another lowlife cheater banished from Chess.com. Good riddance.
No I don't Kupov.... just you. History shows that, not just your one off comment here. How many times have I blocked you?
Why are you bringing up some personal quarrel into a discussion which has nothing to do with you?
Anyway back to the topic, where exactly did Erik say (in context) that Lizard87 acted with maturity? I believe Erik actually said that Lizard acted with maturity only compared to other confirmed engine users.
if you want to know why i think cheating should not be taken too seroiusly please look at page 5 at the posts 92,93 and 95 all those posts were written by me and that's all i'm going to say that is my opinion
Hey, LinwoodMike, look what I found on page six! Three pages later and you're still arguining with everyone under the sun?
The problem is if Erik reinstates this guy he's gonna have to reinstate all the other people banned for cheating as well. There can't be one rule for one and a different rule for all others. Erik's attitude to cheating is commendable.
Very mature, and it also shows what it takes to be a real man. God Bless whoever that is, and i wish them the best.
Sorry I wouldn't use the words "mature" and a "real man" to describe a lowlife who takes it upon himself to cheat on an internet chess site.
I think it took a lot of guts for him to apologise...
Well it's not like he had to get behind a podium and make a televised apology to the world. He just sent a message of contrition over the internet. I mean, it's better to do it than not to do it, and as erik said, most don't. But I really wouldn't characterize this guy as having any kind of spine for doing so.
Very mature, and it also shows what it takes to be a real man. God Bless whoever that is, and i wish them the best.
Sorry I wouldn't use the words "mature" and a "real man" to describe a lowlife who takes it upon himself to cheat on an internet chess site.
You are correct. But i posted that he was mature, and a real man for aologizing.
the glib and voluminous verbiage about this guy of every persuasion has a lot of schadenfreude about it.
it is over. chess is a game. cheaters will get tired of the emptiness with or without getting caught and wander off to some other sterile exercise.
if the site is able to detect cheating efficiently -and it appears it is - then a revenue argument can be made for letting reformed cheaters back.maybe the extra staff time needed to monitor potential re-offenders would be uneconomic. what is the purpose of the site ? promote the game or make dosh ?
Very mature, and it also shows what it takes to be a real man. God Bless whoever that is, and i wish them the best.
Sorry I wouldn't use the words "mature" and a "real man" to describe a lowlife who takes it upon himself to cheat on an internet chess site.
You are correct. But i posted that he was mature, and a real man for aologizing.
I respect your opinion. And chess_kebab's too. I just have a huge distaste for chess cheaters, and seemingly nothing they can do from that point onward can change my opinion of them.
I am always sorry when anyone feel the need to use anything other than legitimate means to progress a game. I always ask, whether there is any risk of being caught or not, what benefit could you possibly get out of it? If your grade is too high, you will get smashed by 'lower' graded players, as a matter of course. It becomes a burden to you, trying to keep up the sham; there is no sense of accomplishment when you 'win' by this method!
I have some difficult opponents breathing down my neck at the moment, but I am also breathing down the necks of other opponents, so it evens out and I can enjoy the encounters, win lose or draw! It's a game baby enjoy it!