Don't know if this type of posts (venting? introspection?) goes here, but yesterday I was in a spree of rapid games, when I encountered this opponent, who, after the beginning back-and-forth as shown here, immediately resigned upon getting that check, leaving 1 message in the chat: "stock." As an amateur who mainly plays through the mobile app for relaxation and does not interact with the chess community much, it took me a Google search to know that they were referring to the program Stockfish. Needless to say, I was a bit vexed.
I think it's fair to say that this sequence of moves is nothing too out of the ordinary for a human being to be able to make, that it had to have been done with a machine. Then I realized that it could've just been the speed at which I was making the moves.... If anyone looks through my game history, it'll become clear that I pretty much just grew accustomed to this playing speed through lots and lots of daily blitz games—which most people would agree doesn't really foster improvement in the game overall. And many of them end in my resignation; I have a... weird personal habit of opening the app to play blitz games during moments of the day where I want to distract myself/calm down, only to resign when I feel I can't concentrate after all & don't want to waste people's time, lol.
In any case, even without all that miscellaneous knowledge about my personal playing history, shouldn't it be common sense that players who have enough experience (quantity-wise) playing the game would be able to make rudimentary moves at a relatively quick pace? A major aspect of chess is pattern recognition; if a player has encountered certain sequences enough times, then it makes sense that they would be able to react quickly. With that specific game, I had actually just had games with similar openings right before.
As someone who's never cheated, I guess I'm just a bit disheartened to know that an opponent would genuinely suspect me of cheating due to something like this. It makes me wonder if many of the cheating complaints on this platform are like this, too...?
