Sure, he may have manufactured an ID that said he's Casper Schoppen (never heard of him) and that's how he got the IM designation from chess.com, then he used a program.
I'm definitely interested in whether we'll see his account open a week or two from now.
But at the same time I'm able to believe it's possible. I haven't looked at his record run though. I guess you're saying he got to 61 with a minute to spare.
Yes. The more I look into it the more I find this extremely odd.
(I'm looking at his most recent run of 61)
Starting from puzzle #50, I start to recognize these. They are the puzzles that repeat when your tactics rating gets extremely high (for example, my 6765). It took about 2-3 months for me to feel confident in answering them. He blew through those (puzzle 57 is mate in 6) but missed the last three (which were much simpler)
Oh, I didn't look at your ratings.
If you're an experienced chess.com tactics guy then you know better than I do how fishy this guy is. I'll trust your analysis.
Frankly, it causes me anxiety sometimes, that some people are dumber than me. It's like I can't have a conversation.
Of course I've talked to brilliant people too, who are much smarter than me.
I'm just saying.
Okay...
I guess you just can't get my point, and we'll have to move on
Hmmm...
at https://www.chess.com/member/vrolijk one of his notes implies that @cschoppen went on his account and got a 58. Interesting, maybe that's why @vrolijk's 58 was removed from the chess.com leader board?
Edit: @cschoppen's 61 also got removed from the leader board. Now it's a tie between Ray Robson and him.
Edit #2: @cschoppen just said something on his profile (emphasis mine):
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Sure, he may have manufactured an ID that said he's Casper Schoppen (never heard of him) and that's how he got the IM designation from chess.com, then he used a program.
You also need other things e.g. a picture of yourself holding a piece of paper that says "chess.com" on it.
Definitely, that guy who plays under the name [public accusations not allowed -- MOD] is a cheat, it looks like a clear PR bot. He did 61, and ALL the previous records 59, 58 and 57 (last two as [removed -- MOD]) with 0.03s avg time per puzzle, in all cases 1-1.5 min remained on his clock!! When I wrote this on his wall he immediately deleted this note and started to wait every time until the time run out, I was following how he's doing it. It's very easy, just try to click on the first line of the player's rush archive and reload the page every x seconds.
IMHO I don't think that it's real Casper Schoppen, more like impersonator, but after cautious comparison of his play with @spicycaterpillar 's rushes it's clear that spicy plays fairly and [removed -- MOD] is not
Definitely, that guy who plays under the name [removed -- MOD] is a cheat, it looks like a clear PR bot. He did 61, and ALL the previous records 59, 58 and 57 (last two as [removed -- MOD]) with 0.03s avg time per puzzle, in all cases 1-1.5 min remained on his clock!! When I wrote this on his wall he immediately deleted this note and started to wait every time until the time run out, I was following how he's doing it. It's very easy, just try to click on the first line of the player's rush archive and reload the page every x seconds.
IMHO I don't think that it's real Casper Schoppen, more like impersonator, but after cautious comparison of his play with @spicycaterpillar 's rushes it's clear that spicy plays fairly and [removed -- MOD] is not
Interesting
in his most recent 61 run he got it, and the remaining three wrong, with 1:06 to spare.
FWIW the last 5 or so are among the highest rated tactics on TT, meaning they are the easiest to find; so if he did memorize, that sticks out like a sore thumb.
Hmm, well maybe he cheated. I don't know.
Like some guy said earlier though, it's dumb to use his real name if that's the case.