increase in bots and fake accounts.

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treatb59
I mainly play bullet chess now. Im usually, 500-800 rating but i love the mistakes and energy. Last year i played 7,000 games of chess and won nearly 50%. Typically, i sack a game if i cant formulate a mate because thats just how i am. So, 90% of my wins are mates and not just premoving to try to ruin the timers... this year. Ive noticed i am barely mating anymore. I am sensitive to patterns so i notice how my rating is rising and lowering. Ill lose a series of games and then play someone that clearly lets me win. Or ill play real people that make odd moves and then aborts and boom. Clearly these are bot accounts. Timer issues, lag, consistent openings and denial of generic tricks, and when i test these. I often make a sacrifice that makes no sense to which a random will have premoved to that blunder. I tend to ply based on an algorithm of strategy similar to how bobby fischer played. Though im no bobby fischer, i can formulate alot of unique checkmates.

My joy for chess com has dropped the last year. Ive been on here for 14 years and they refuse to fix basic issues with the app where you cant premove if the opponent’s move is being shown. So it cancels your moves..

But now its just bots every time i play.
justbefair
treatb59 wrote:
I mainly play bullet chess now. Im usually, 500-800 rating but i love the mistakes and energy. Last year i played 7,000 games of chess and won nearly 50%. Typically, i sack a game if i cant formulate a mate because thats just how i am. So, 90% of my wins are mates and not just premoving to try to ruin the timers... this year. Ive noticed i am barely mating anymore. I am sensitive to patterns so i notice how my rating is rising and lowering. Ill lose a series of games and then play someone that clearly lets me win. Or ill play real people that make odd moves and then aborts and boom. Clearly these are bot accounts. Timer issues, lag, consistent openings and denial of generic tricks, and when i test these. I often make a sacrifice that makes no sense to which a random will have premoved to that blunder. I tend to ply based on an algorithm of strategy similar to how bobby fischer played. Though im no bobby fischer, i can formulate alot of unique checkmates.
My joy for chess com has dropped the last year. Ive been on here for 14 years and they refuse to fix basic issues with the app where you cant premove if the opponent’s move is being shown. So it cancels your moves..
But now its just bots every time i play.

Hmm. You just came off an 11 game win streak., which rocketed your bullet rating to 322.

Your checkmate percentage is indeed dropping.

I see 40.4% of your wins by checkmate over the last year

37% of your wins by checkmate over the last 90 days.

23.2% of your wins by checkmate over the last 30 days

19.4% of your wins by checkmate over the last 7 days.

I see no reason to believe that your opponents are bots.

If you had Insights, you could get the number of mates in 1/2/3/4/5 that you have missed over the last day/week/month etc.