Playable time controls

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Leetsak

are there any time controls left to play on this site ? The rapid is long gone, as this is the most cheated one, now, the 5 min blitz has become pretty absurd as well, where people blitz out constant under 7 sec moves no matter the postiions, so that is pretty much unplayable, bullet is unplayable cause of the lag, daily is pretty much run an engine and make a move. So what is there left to play ? bots ?

SacrifycedStoat
Rapid, I don’t see that many cheaters.

Also, you didn’t say anything was wrong dry blitz. OPPONENTS can play with a certain strategy, so what?

Bullet, fair point.

Daily, I’m gonna report you for cheating right now. Using an engine is not allowed, and no one except you does it anyway.

So, you have every time control except bullet.
SacrifycedStoat
I can see how some people encounter more cheaters, but there is literally nothing wrong with blitz and daily.
Martin_Stahl

The perception of cheating levels is orders of magnitude more than the actual amount. The vast majority of games and players are clean.

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-march-2025#FairPlay

The site closed more than 100,000 accounts in February 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 want to discuss join the following club https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

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