Don't want to be a sore loser!

Hello there. 

I am fairly new to chess and chess.com. 

I am around 660 and have started to see how helpful the post-game analysis can be to (slowly!) improve my game. I notice that whoever wins in my matches the highest accuracy level is usually around 70%. I assume this is normal for someone of our level. 

However recently I played someone who got a 96% accuracy rating, who achieved 25 "best moves" while being the same rating as me.

As I am completely new, I'd like to ask the more experienced of you is this suspicious at all?

I certainly don't want to take away from this person if they had a great game, but I found it just a bit... odd. Perhaps because I am new I am unaware if this is quite common?

If this is common then I apologise and hats off to the person who beat me so soundly! If this is not common however what would be the next steps?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Report him: he won 17 games in a row, all of which have insane accuracy (3 games with 99.7, 2 games with 99.6, 1 game with 99.5, 1 game 99.3 and so on), definetly a cheater

Update: your opponent's account got closed for violating the rules of fair play.

I honestly don't know why people cheat like this, I mean besides wasting peoples time what are they getting out of it 🤔

I do not understand it as well. I will rather lose a game with bad accuracy and learn from it than win it by cheating. You have to lose plenty of games to win one that you can be actually proud of. They are probably scared of something or idk. 

I confess that on daily matches I use books and the opening explorer on chess.com on the openings, but that's the most I do...

Do u consider this cheating?

It is not. It would be if you are using engines. Plus daily chess are good chance to study openings.

Most people feel like chess is directly related to how much smarter one of the two are, and I think that's why some of them cheat. To avoid that feeling. Cheater tend to think that actually they are smarter because they know how to cheat.

ALso maybe to have a profile to show off to your friends your "good" rating.

PS. Of course there's no such thing as luck on chess, but it's not only about smarts. It's if you had a good night of sleep, or a stressfull day at work/school, et cetera.

To the OP, my advice is also to watch some "how to use chess.com analysis to analyze my game" on YouTube, there's a lot of players and masters that have already made their tutorial and I found very instructive to understand the accuracy concept and the blunder/innacuracy/mistakes the engines points out.

I remember especially the tips from the @GothamChess channel. Maybe it will be a good start.

Reporting should never hurt: the site is supposed to check multiple games and make a decision based off a pattern of extremely good play.  However:

-- if you keep making mistakes on par with a 600 rating, even a 1000 player will match the engine.  Its not hard to match the engine when the moves are 'open, take the hung pieces, checkmate the king'. 

If magnus came in here with a new account at 1200 default rating and plastered everyone for 2 weeks until he was up to 2600 or whatever, would he get banned?  This bothers me.  Do we ban 'cheaters' at the expense of booting off serious talent at times?   I get that they have to do *something*, just sometimes, I wonder...

Good players have to set their starting rating to 2000