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Interesting point. Yeah, I agree timing should be a strong signal. It seems like there are a few ways it could be included:

- Measure a correlation between position complexity and time spent per move. You would expect a good move to take longer to calculate in complex positions.

- Move timing consistency, humans are all over the place with timing, whereas cheaters often move regularly.

- Long pause, then strong play. If a cheater starts cheating half way through a game, then there could be a transition period where they first enter the position into the engine.

Yeah, seems like there would be a lot of ways of doing it. The correlation would have to take into account how much time the player has on the clock as well.

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