Are You Playing A Cheater ???
Contents:-
1. How to Find Chess Cheaters (Engine Users)
2. Chess Cheaters
3. Other Cheaters
4. How to Win Against Them
5. What to do ?
Sometimes we get crushed by our opponent we think they were cheating - We can't do any thing , but NO we could do something read below
How To Find Chess Cheaters
1. They take consistent time for every move Mainly the move is played between 4-15 seconds.
2. They play moves which are 1st, 2nd , 3rd line of the engine
3. Their Account is new with high rating and have Massive Win rate.
4. Their accuracy is always above 90 % .
5. They have high rating in Rapid and Blitz but very less in Bullet.
Chess Cheaters :
They are of many types. Some cheat the whole game , some cheat when they stuck in game , some cheat after opening , etc.They have consistent time usage because they open engine and then open Chess.com Again. They could be identified by using Chess.com analysis by checking accuracy score. They have new accounts because Chess.com doesn't waste time to Ban these people .
This doesn't mean that you played above 90% accuracy then you are a cheater, NO that's not the case, your accuracy also depends on the opponent because if they play badly you could get higher accuracy. This was the Cheating by usage of chess engine.
Do you Know People have several ways to cheat
Sandbagging : Rating Manipulation. They resign to get low elo and take advantage of actually lower rated players.
Stalling : Quiting games because they were losing. They do this because they expect the winning person to resign for saving time.
How to Win Against Cheaters :
If you are playing Rapid 10|0 or higher time controls You are lost. There's a twist , you can win them in Blitz or Bullet . You have to play fast because they take consistently 10 or more seconds.
When you think they were cheating you may report this to Chess.com You may get your elo back.
Thank You.