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Well that begins to make a little more sense when you add those other things. Not that it's fair. Out of curiosity how often were you switching tasks? Every move, half of the time , quarter of the time etc ?
@turtlenecks not sure if that's a serious question, but it means while you are playing going to another program or tab in your browser and then coming back to the game. I do it all the time to play music, check my email, ADD etc... Makes me a little concerned that I could be targeted next. Although if you looked at my games, blunders, you could tell I'm anything but.
But I was asking the cookie monster if he was doing that every single move. Now that would be really suspicious.
@turtlenecks

Switching tasks is just having multiple programs up and going back and forth between them. I use to do it a lot when I was in FICS. With my stupid ego sometimes I would log into multiple servers to get more games in at the same time. I once did three simuls at once. On FICS, ICC, and here. That was fun. I think I had an average of 5 each. and FICS allows easy access to adding people to your simul when the games are done, I believe I did add a few on that one. I have not done that in a while, and it was probably one of the biggest tasks switch sessions I have ever done.

@President_DonaldDuck

I don't remember really. Probably every other move to every three moves. I was setting up my own stream in combination with discord and I was testing out the connection speeds to make sure they were not lagging. It was simple stuff like making sure my green light on OBS was on, and seeing if the green circle in discord was blinking when I talk. I don't remember if it was in twitch or youtube at that time. I tried to find it but seems nothing past 7 months on youtube and nothing seems to be on the twitch channel at all. I use to have like 20+ videos on twitch and all of them are gone. I have a feeling it is because either I was a free user, or I wasn't popular enough to keep them or both.

I had a friend who was watching. He would let me know if anything went weird in the stream, and he had this funny habit of telling me comments that were in the tournament chat room. He's the one that told me my game was on lichess tv.

I guess I should stop replying here because one of the people on here reminded me a few posts ago that this is an actual topic and that my personal issues is not the topic. Feel free if you like to either start another topic or PM me. I don't mind. Thanks for listening.
I switch tasks everytime and dont get banned, however if you open an analysis board the system will detect that as cheating automatically, it doesnt matter how strong you are, even some IM & GM cheat and get caught, if i were you i would let it go
Ok, we'll let it stay right there for now. But I have to say I'm starting to be swayed that the cheating flag was correct because Alt Tabbing away up to every move while playing on lichess tv against an IM , beating someone who's way higher rated, and playing a flawless game 40 moves where you rarely played the first human move, that's a lot of reasons to be suspicious.
And now the video proof is mysteriously missing.
And now I just read the other poster pointed out other games with 0 0 0 mistakes and suspicious time usage.
Only you know for sure and if you didn't cheat then this truly sucks. But you felt others might be jumping to conclusions but I can assure you I gave all the evidence available a good looking over and that was my conclusion, even though I was siding with you at first.
To add to what others have said, you can use the local analysis to look at lines you think natural or likely, as well as counters to 'questionable' moves (which won't be included in mainline you'd look up but are possibly still relevant at your level).

Even in rapid and moreso in blitz and bullet especially you can get time/intimation advantage in opening by using moves you've memorized quickly, even if the end result is evaluated equal by computer. Obviously this task is harder as black; one idea to nullify white's preparation advantage is to have early acceptable uncommon response to the opening you don't focus on as white.

There are numerous studies with openings too; as an alternative to a physical board you could improve your muscle memory and coordinates by using mouse to go to the next move rather than left/right keys.

(OTOH the less said about the derail the better. Not the thread for it.)

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