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TEAM
Detecting Engine Usage in Chess
Calvin Pozderac, Philip Barron, Philip Barron, Nathaniel Tamminga, Dushyanth Sirivolu
When then world champion Magnus Carlsen lost to Niemann in a surprise upset, Magnus accused his opponent of cheating. Were such accusations well-founded?
The project: train a neural network to distinguish between human chess and engine chess.
For data sets: We use in-person high level tournament play, as it's harder to cheat, for the human moves and an online database of engine evaluations from Lichess
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