Anti cheat test

Before someone can play rated games s/he should take a anti cheat test, this would eliminate a lot of cheaters early on and makes most people think twice about trying to cheat.
Agreed?

yes.

What would this test consist of?

A sample of chess positions of openings, middle game and end games with positional play and tactics. You would have a limited time for each position, for example 20 seconds and every move you make is evaluated, in the end the moderators get an approximate rating of your strength.

I'm really having a hard time understanding what this would accomplish. Is this just to seed your initial rating? Or are you just counting on cheaters being too dumb to turn the engine off while they're being tested?

@apetresc how could you cheat if you only have 20 seconds? unless you have a fully automated bot that automatically reads the position

it's not about seeding your rating, it would simply be easier to spot suspicious rating development of players

@Poldi_der_Drache what apertresc is saying ins that people who want to cheat will *not* cheat during the test, and only start cheating once they have passed the test.

if this test has no effect when someone fails to solve any of the test questions i dont care (very weak players should also be allowed to play rated games here).

The test could consist of images of chesspositions, so that someone can not or at least not easily read the position from the source code of the website with a bot. The same could be the case with the answers.

It indeed would support cheat detection and it also would allow lichess to create more precise provisional ratings.

I wouldnt call it cheat test but a provisional rating indication method.

@mCoombes314 if someone doesnt cheat during the test and performs bad then it is more obvious that he cheats, when later he plays GM moves all the time during his games.

As an off shoot this sort of thing could be used to have people enter as something other than 1500? But that's at best a mild inconvenience.

I'm just not sure how you would account for learning, I play better now than when I joined.