AI/Infra: Develop an anomaly detection system for cheating behavior

[chinweobtagaz]

Description

To maintain platform integrity in rated pools, we must identify and ban users who are using engines to assist their play.

What Needs to be Done

• Develop an offline cron job that analyzes recent rated games.
• Compare player moves against Stockfish top-choice correlation.
• Analyze move-time variance (e.g., taking exactly 3 seconds for every move).
• Flag accounts exceeding the confidence threshold for human review.

Acceptance Criteria

• System accurately flags accounts with >90% engine correlation.
• Does not auto-ban, but populates a dashboard for admins.
• Lightweight enough to run nightly over thousands of games.

[m-hajjo]

@m-hajjo has applied to work on this issue as part of the Stellar Wave Program's 7th wave.

I am a software engineer and an open source contributor. I would like to work on this issue please

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