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 - **Don't cheat too much, you increase the chance of providing proof of you cheating and/or making a mistake.** It's easy to cheat more and more once you see it's working, it becomes a very comfortable habit AND it also comes with you becoming more relaxed, careless and prone to making a mistake. But remember: this is what will most likely get you caught and this is what anti-cheaters also rely on -- they may already be suspecting you but waiting for more evidence, you don't want to provide it. Perfect cheat detection doesn't exist -- they like to pretend they have bulletproof methods but it's a facade, they in fact rely on you fucking up, you have to cooperate a bit to get caught -- don't do it. Serial killers usually get caught because they don't stop, they keep doing it over and over until they make one small mistake, or they simply give the investigators so much data that statistics eventually extracts proof and predictions from it: each new murder simply gives a new data point to the detectives that reveals a little bit more about your location, habits, modus operandi etc. Be paranoid: if no one is suspecting you, it may be the case they are secretly suspecting you and want you to think you're safe, they may be closely watching you, so if you can, stop cheating for a very long time, then it's more likely they stopped watching you due to spending too many resources for long time without any results. Also know that each new cheating attempt is also a new risk: more attempts equals greater overall probability of failure; even if there is just 1 in 100 chance of you getting caught, cheating 100 times is suddenly pretty dangerous. So only cheat very, very sparingly -- save it for when it matters. For example in a chess tournament play yourself against opponents you know you can beat alone and against the strong opponents only cheat in the key, decisive moment; then outside tournaments, when losing doesn't matter as much, try again to play yourself as much as possible.
 - **Keep the disparity between your actual skill and cheated skill as low as possible** (this is related to "get good at the game" and "don't cheat too much") -- this makes it much harder to detect, prove and so minimizes the chance of you getting busted. Say that given some amount of invested energy you could make it to top 300 in the world, which may be fine but not good enough for you, you aim for top 100 -- then split the energy, invest part of it to legitimately getting to top 500, then spend the rest on boosting it with cheating to top 100; now if someone sees you legit playing, it's not immediately clear you're not actually on that level, they may think you're overrated, you've been lucky, that's you're just rusty at the moment, but no one can be sure you're cheating.
 - **Be good with technology, know your shit.** If you're a [Windows](windows.md) used who tries to cheat by googling  "minecraft cheating programs free download", you probably don't know shit about technology, you have to actually learn something. Many get caught for stupid shit like leaving metadata in their video that says the video is edited, or they have no clue that cheating software leaves [watermarks](watermark.md) in videos (this actually caught many geometry dash cheaters). Ideally you want to [program](programming.md) YOUR OWN tools, develop your own methods of modifying the game etc.
+- **Check out how professional cheating is done**, especially  for real life games such as OTB chess; for example cheating on exams, illusionists, spies during world wars etc. There are now businesses around cheating, you can get books, tools, training etc.
 - **Don't overcomplicate it, [keep it simple](kiss.md).** Remember that less is more, a complex way of cheating is probably more likely to fail due to just one part failing.
 - **Practice**, a cheater is like illusionist, he comes up with a trick but then also has to perfect its execution, he must NEVER fail it in public, else he gives it away. However practice in a way that doesn't pose risk, i.e. don't practice online against other people; instead practice offline, record yourself and see if you look convincing, if there is something suspicious etc. There may be a good way to e.g. fake blindfold plays by hiding a secondary monitor somewhere while wearing fake blindfold, however it's extremely hard to do many things at once so that you don't fuck anything up, some got caught like this because they were blatantly staring in the direction of the monitor and then sitting in very weird positions to see through the blindfold; one shitty [female](woman.md) streamer actually even fucked up by responding to Twitch chat she was reading on her hidden monitor when she was supposed to no longer see the monitor. You think it's stupid -- it is -- but under pressure it's extremely hard to do many things simultaneously correctly, you absolutely must train to avoid this kind of fuckup.
 - **Plan and be ready**, think ahead. If one day you play like a beginner and next week you're beating the champion, you're in trouble: plan your progression, progress slowly, make it look natural. Don't go from not cheating to full cheating mode, incorporate cheating by small doses, big spikes in performance are suspicious. Be ready for accusations and ways they might check you, anticipate that they may for example suddenly ask you to send a replay file of a record you just achieved: forge the replay, make sure it's good and have it ready. Prepare answers to interrogation questions, prepare ways to cover up your fuck ups if they happen, you don't want to be making up weak excuses on the spot. Take this as part of the whole cheating [project](project.md), every project requires planning, risk assessment, backup plans and so on.