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Nine-point-Circle

Can I analyze a master game with the same opening (first 5 half moves) as one of the correspondence games that I am playing? (I accidentally did this two days ago before I realized that I might be cheating.) I did not play out any variations, I just followed the master game from start to finish and looked at the engine's evaluation on every move. (Currently, I haven't played the 6th half move of the correspondence game.)

Nine-point-Circle

Yeah so I'm curious if this is considered cheating.

Nine-point-Circle

Can someone verify this?

Mittttens

2HO_9=6O_9G=3GO, H, O_9, G, O lie on the Euler line in that order

Martin_Stahl
Nine-point-Circle wrote:

Can I analyze a master game with the same opening (first 5 half moves) as one of the correspondence games that I am playing? (I accidentally did this two days ago before I realized that I might be cheating.) I did not play out any variations, I just followed the master game from start to finish and looked at the engine's evaluation on every move. (Currently, I haven't played the 6th half move of the correspondence game.)

You can't use an engine on the opening to analyze but you are allowed to use things like books,, databases, videos, etc

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8568369-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com

Nine-point-Circle

So I cheated?

O-O

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/is-explorer-cheatingthere's a whole forum already made on this topic, as far as I know it isn't cheating. I also remember seeing a video of Daniel Rensch using it and so if someone of his position did then yeah surely it's fine.