chess.com is lying

I good friend of mine who I have been playing at chess for over forty years and who is a regular Club, County and Tournament player in the UK, has just been kicked off chess.com for cheating, which is an outright lie.

His only opponent is me, I have never accused him of cheating, I know he would never cheat in a chess game and he has no need to cheat to beat me anyway.

We have both complinaed to chess.com about his ban but all we get is the glib we are "absolutely certain" that he is cheating and "nice peope cheat". They will give no evidence to try and justify their nasty and libellous claim.

The whole affair stinks and is a stain on the character of a well-known player.

chess.com can go f##k itself.

in this group you can discuss cheating.

http://www.chess.com/groups/home/cheating-forum

afaik chess.com needs to be about 99.9% certain of cheating before banning someone so probably he has been using an engine without telling you. 

That's just what OJ said.  He didn't do it either. 

Well u need to tell us your friends name so we can decide for ourselfs , so  other members  can check it out if your claim does hold water.

I'm with you, man: chess.com told me to look over there and pointed at something that didn't even exist, and then when I turned around my f****** cookie was gone.

Favourite?

Fostered.  I didn't want him to know.

I hired a private investigator who discovered that, as I suspected, chess.com was having an affair with my wife.  When I confronted chess.com about it, however, they totally denied it!  They even tried to tell me that was someone else in the pictures!

Looking at the player involved, who really has played only the OP, and only CC, not live, I wonder if this was a case where they thought a rating was being manipulated?  He had only 1 opponent, never lost a game (there was a draw a long time ago) and had thus obtained a rating of 2600+.

By the way, all the games have a normal number of moves-- they weren't throwaways to get a win stat with just a few moves.

So you're not allowed to use chess.com to play a single friend repeatedly if you're much better than them? Interesting.

Why not implement the same rule that most federations have -- that repeated matches with the same opponent don't count towards rating advancement?

Well, we still don't know about any statistical comparison with an engine that chess.com performed, and we never will.  And this thread is going to get shut down any minute now anyway.

Still, I fail to see how someone can reach 2600+ rating by systematically beating someone rated around 2000.

one point at a time...

That too.  The fortune was unfavourable, so chess.com left it for me to read and suffer from.

That makes over one hundred games, which is not the case.

I didn't go through the math, but his entire game archive consists of 56 games (spread evenly over the past 4.5 years), all against the same opponent.