Cheating Against Cheaters.

Does cheating against a cheater count as cheating because if it did that would be ironic.
Just asking.

Then you are gonna tagged as a cheater too . Like I am tagged as " The Legendary Sandbagger ".

:P :D

congratulations

what is sandbagging?

throwing away rating points

Sandbagging is used for someone to lose points and perhaps get into a lower rating range where they might win money at a tournament. Let me give you an example. Suppose you have a rating of 1801...There are a few tournaments coming up with players over 1800 and another one with players below 1800.

A person can play and lose on purchase to players that they should win against to get their rating to drop below 1800 and then play in a lower bracket where their rating would be on the high end and thus have a greater chance of winning money from the tournament.

There are ways to stop this of course. You can create a floor where no matter how badly a player plays, their rating will not drop below a certain level to prevent someone from losing on purpose to get into a lower bracket for the sole purpose of increasing their chances of winning.

Yeah @ JoseO

I won Millions of Dollars on lichess after getting below 1800 :P

Thanks for the information.

I see cheating to be quite an issue on the website. There are lots of players who take their time and do well in the opening and middle game, but once they end up in a time scramble and/or a simple endgame they start blundering consistently and making much weaker moves in general.
I once played a guy who did a great job during the game but then had a hard time mating me with a king and a queen vs a king with as much as 30 secs left on the clock.

Now welcome to the guys who would claim back that I have no proof and so on:) I will not take the issue to the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, I see what I see and this would enough for all players here who use common sense.

To the OP- almost same problem as, if you shoot the robber (which may have been going to shoot you, may not), are you the killer or not? I would apply same idea to cheating, if you both cheat then either you both have to get banned (objectively speaking he may started to cheat because you cheated), or no one; but you both are equally guilty.
And to put it in a higher way of sense (not just on chess), it's about justice; you either trust the system (that is, the system here will get to ban the cheaters by their own) and don't interfere (by cheating yourself to make their work harder), or you take the justice in your own hands (like a vigilante) which is more effective if the system fails. But since in this very case lichess is well organized I would say you have no single reason to start cheating yourself (otherwise lichess is allowed to punish you aswell as the ones you're cheating against.)