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ChessKy538

So I played this match against someone 100 points rated higher than me and I got 96% accuracy! That's very good and I'm very proud of that but I'm a bit worried. It seems cheater potential and maybe he'll report me for suspicious activity even though I swear I didn't cheat.
Here's the match. Let me know what you think in the comments: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/86589509869?tab=review&move=68

Mu_mbai_kid49

yessir

actual_knight_gaming
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People need to stop complaining about these things, if you didn't cheat, you shouldn't worry. We all have really good games.

dankodag

Do not worry. The game is completely equal until your opponent plays c5, which is the losing move happy.png So it is his fault, and you very well read the situation and played b5 leading pawns to promotion happy.png

AteivisM

Chess.com has really good stuff, it analyzes people who can be cheaters, and time/accuracy/moves are very important. One game? Nah, we all have some.

BNorbi18

I don't think so. Accuracy isn't everything. All of your moves were logical (Yes I checked the match) not a top engine move. So you don't have to worry. The Chess.com won't ban you.

I also played with a 91% accuracy a few match ago so...

LiterallyBroken

Absolutely not - cheating doesn't depend on accuracy alone, it depends on time usage/consistency and other factors as well. All that happened was he made a mistake and you capitalized.

MGleason

If you want to discuss cheating and cheat detection, I would recommend joining the Cheating Forum: https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

A high accuracy score can happen legitimately. This is most common when a game is decided by an early blunder, but it can also happen in long, straightforward endgames.

Accuracy scores tell you how closely you matched the engine, and you don't get marked down for minor inferior moves in a completely won position. They don't give much information about how hard those moves were to find. So you could play a lot of "perfect" moves that were very easy to find and get a very high score.

Cheat detection has to look at how hard those moves were to find. A lot of easy-to-find moves isn't particularly suspicious even at low levels. A lot of hard-to-find moves looks more suspicious. That simplifies things greatly, and the full details are proprietary (and I don't know all the details), but that's enough to give the basic idea.

Accuracy scores were not designed for cheat detection, and are of limited value for that purpose. Don't worry about a bad just because you had a game with a very high accuracy. And don't take high accuracy from an opponent as proof of cheating.

Iris_for_the_Pin

@ChessKy538: it is no surprise that you had a good game and played well. You will have more of these. I read your blog. I've noticed your progress. You study, you do puzzles, you learn, and you grow. Well-played games are your reward.