First Time accused of cheating!

Today I was accused of cheating for the first time! I was playing against a player lower rated than me. He accused me of using an engine partway through. The game is here:

https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1510062919

Since I wasn't using an engine, I think I may have missed a mate near move 13. Can anyone tell me if I did? thx

I would think people who use engines would have much higher ratings. Sometimes the accusation of cheating online is made insincerely from a bad sport.

Well, to be fair, I reloaded the page alot.

I think 15...Nxe3 was better. Threatening mate on g2, attacking the Queen and also threatening ...Rxd2.

Yeah, you missed 12. ... nxf4 which wins bc white has to give up the kitchen sink to avoid mate and I'm sure a ton of other stuff.  12. ... nxf4 is by no means and easy find at your level, but 14. ... qxr should have been findable. 

Congratulations!! It's a defining moment in your online chess career - and something to boast of forever :-)

Take it as a compliment and move on...

I think 15...Rxd2 was better, an immediate paralyse for white.

Don't bother those kind of people. Agreed with Diakonia and Jam, move on!

Cheating doesnt have to involve an engine.  Sandbagging is cheating too.

First time it may hurt

Second times less

Then get accustomed

I remember my first time, well ..it didn't hurt at all I was 13

ooops was not chess game,  "off topic", sorry

I played on 700-800 level for the last couple of months, not really learning or anything, just playing games to figure out if I wanted to come back to chess. Only twice I beat players who were significantly higher rated (about 1000-1100 rating) and guess what happended both times...

I would be flattered if I were accused of cheating ;0

 I remeber an Fm accused me of cheating because he couldnt belive he was losing against a so low rated player then i blundered my queen and lost on time

fascinating story

co tam ochlapusy?

Must've been haertbreaking.

Today was my first time accused of using an engine. This was not on chess.com but on another site where all games are correspondence (one week to move) and there is no analysis board, game explorer, or anything like that). I go on this site to play more relaxed skittles games as there is no rating pressure on either player. The downside is that because there is no system of rating players, random players chosen by the site are very variable and most, quite frankly, are total International Patzers, if not Grandpatzers. Occasionally, however, one has the pleasure of meeting an opponent who is quite good and you get a good game. There is a chat facility during games and occasionally, because my username over there suggests that I may be a woman (Waiki Tara - it's a phrase in my joint first language, MIskitu), I sometimes get chatted up there, something I never intended when I chose it as a handle. (I've a funny story about that for another time). 

This evening I was playing someone named DumpTrump who I think was a pretty strong by the standards of that site as it turned out, though he played the opening, a sort of faux Bogo-Indian, quite weakly and I was soon able to establish an advantage which I converted into significantly decisive material gain. He stuck it out to the endgame, making quite a fight of it, but I played the ending quite accurately and forcefully and he was eventually forced to resign. A bad day at the office, I suspect, for him.

He proposed a return game which I accepted having enjoyed busting an evidently (by the standards of that site) competent player's arse and now feeling generous enough to offer him the opportunity for revenge. Having had no chat in the first game, he now began to chat in the return game, which turned into the first moves of the Sicilan Dragon (me black). The chat quickly turned odd.

DT: Gg!

Me: Yes, a good fight![I did not of course gloat]

DT: Are you a manicurist?

Me: [Thinks 'WTF'] No, why?

DT: There is just a place called Waikki nails :) [I have since discovered online that Waikki Nails are a chain of manicure shops in the United States]

Me: Those are words in my language. [Miskitu is my joint first language and the first language of my wife]

DT: What is yoy [sic] language? Are you a guy?

Me: My language is Miskitu

DT: Are you a woman or man?

Me: Man

DT: You use an engine I thought so

At this point he evidently decided the moment had come to throw his toys out of his pram and he resigned. The second game had got as far as 5. ... g6, the signature move of the Dragon. I wrote back quickly, possibly before his receipt of our chat got automatically disabled.

Me: I'm flattered

Me: I doubt that any engine plays the dragon lol

End of chat. 

What on earth do I make of that conversation? He obviously started the second game only because the chat was disabled after the first game finished and he just had to have his say about it and make his accusation. (There is no personal messenging system, other than through in-game chat on this site.) I have to say, however, that I was hugely thrilled at have been accused of using an engine. It was like being admitted to an elite club of players who play, apparently, perfect chess (though I'm sure that there were several errors in my game that a real engine would have found in the post-game analysis, though that site does not have this).

I hasten to add that of course I did not use an engine. Indeed I did not know until a few months ago, when I got back into chess, that computers were being used to cheat in online games (though I was of course aware of the existence of chess computers) or that they were called 'engines'. If you have asked me up until last spring what Stockfish was, I'd have assumed that it was a refridgerated warehouse in Grimsby. I doubt if anyone here is interested but if anyone is, I'll put up the game. I was actually quite proud of the way I totally demo'd him. As strongish players are fairly rare on that site and you are served up random players who are generally very weak (over here they'd have three digit ratings), he may not have come across anyone who could actually beat him. His pride was evidently hurt, his arse having received a real kicking. He he!

The irony is that the first player to beat me on that site, who was excellent, had the engine-connoting username Deep Blue. We had a great game, I'm sure he or she didn't use an engine despite what I thought was consistently excellent and very accurate play, and I was gracious enough to compliment him or her on what had been a very enjoyable and hard fought game. I guess some of us are, in the parlance of our times, 'sore loosers' (sic).