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4435Historyisthebest

So my rating on rapid was increased by 8 points I then checked my messages and I saw this from chess.com 

We have detected that one or more of your recent opponents has violated our Fair Play Policy. As compensation for potentially unfair rating losses, we adjusted your following ratings:

Rapid: 127 + 8 => 135

my plan is to see other people who have also got this message today and see if have share a recent opponent 

medelpad
Imagine cheating and still being 100 😭
Chess_Player_lol

you can just look at your game archive and see look for opponents that were banned for fair play violations

NIVEK1000

Indeed...

majortaylor08
Yo this guys 100 and better than me
jr212

I had many messages like that over the years. I also rapport everyone that I'm sure of that he/she sheats. I block the once I think the do. happy.png

Atisbo

So my rating on rapid was increased by 8 points I then checked my messages and I saw this from chess.com 

We have detected that one or more of your recent opponents has violated our Fair Play Policy. As compensation for potentially unfair rating losses, we adjusted your following ratings:

I got an identical message a couple of months ago.

ChessMasteryOfficial

Chess.com has systems in place to detect and address cheating and they take reports from players seriously.

MartinMacT

My account was recently closed for violating fair play rules. I was extremely shocked, because I only ever play the one opponent whom I have known for nearly fifty years – and he certainly hadn't reported me. Accordingly, I appealed against the closure, and, after investigation, Chess.Com admitted that the closure had been a mistake and awarded me a year's free Diamond membership by way of an apology. Apparently the search for unusual patterns of play is continuous across the whole membership and is driven by AI software. If you haven't cheated, then a human panel will review the case and my example proves it can be overturned.

Torquayman
4435Historyisthebest wrote:

So my rating on rapid was increased by 8 points I then checked my messages and I saw this from chess.com

We have detected that one or more of your recent opponents has violated our Fair Play Policy. As compensation for potentially unfair rating losses, we adjusted your following ratings:

Rapid: 127 + 8 => 135

my plan is to see other people who have also got this message today and see if have share a recent opponent

600-750's play better than 1150-1300's on here, they never blunder, that shouldn't be possible, that is my personal experience, time and time again. My only conclusion is, this place is full of fish loving low lifes.

Martin_Stahl

https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com

https://www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-april-2024?alert=content#FairPlay

The site closed 58,000+ accounts last month for fair play violations and has a full team of staff working on reports along with some automated systems for detection.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/fair-play

That said, discussions of cheating, potential cheating, or cheat detection are not allowed in the general forums. If you would like to discuss join the following club. https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

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