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by blub 1362 days ago
If there are several good moves, it seems logical to cheat by not picking the computer’s top choice.
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If there are three or four good moves of approximately equal strength in a position, then it just isn't a position where someone at grandmaster level needs to cheat or benefits from doing so. They were going to find one of those moves anyway.
Is it cheating if you make decisions to purposefully not gain an advantage (ignoring gambling-induced outcomes, like throwing a match)?

"He was cheating! An outside influence was telling him which move to make and he purposefully didn't do it!"

Like I said, it depends on the available set of moves. If #1 is +1 and #2 is +0.7, but the cheater wanted to play #5 at -0.5 then that’s an outcome-changing difference.

Chess engines like Hiarcs can show a series of good, ok, questionable and bad moves for each touched piece color-coded on the board for example.