Cheaters

For some time now, I've been having trouble playing long games on this platform. Not only do I often have to wait around 5 minutes for an opponent, but when I finally find one, it turns out their account is only a few weeks or months old. A quick profile check and game accuracy analysis make it obvious that I'm dealing with a cheater.

So I'm faced with a difficult choice: waste an hour playing against an engine or abandon the game before the first move. Unfortunately, due to frequent resignations, I seem to have been put on some kind of blacklist and can no longer do this without losing rating points.

Solving this issue would be very simple—for example, adding an option to filter opponents by a minimum account age. If an account has been around for more than a year, the chances of the player cheating are much lower. What do you think?

That is a good idea

But it could get exploited

Any response from chess.com staff? Do you care more about cheaters or regular, fair players?

First thing you learn on the forum is that forums titled "cheaters" always get locked.

Second thing you learn is that this is not the place to get responses from staff.

The forum is answered 99.9% by other users.

The question has come up many times. The abort option is not supposed to be used to pick and choose games. It used to be used that way more than ten years ago and you often had to start half a dozen games before you got one that stuck.

Many people have suggested the use of an account age option as a seek option. That option exists now in daily games. Why it isn't available in live chess isn't clear.

Chess. com has semi-regular "State of Chess. com" broadcasts and Reddits where they field questions like that. You can also join the Cheating Forum club to debate these questions with other users.