Amazing or Cheating?
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Jul 23, 2025
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#3
No cheating here. You made a mistake and your opponent took advantage of it. If you’ve only played see a sacrifice like that then calculate if your opponent has more attackers than you have defenders and if it is equal or they have one more attackers than you than you have defenders then calculate if they can get to you. You have 15min+10sec increment and you were going blitz mode. Don’t go blitz mode when you have 15min on the clock.
Jul 23, 2025
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#4
Also in your endgame what is Ke6? You spent 4 min which was not necessary and if you were scared to being mated you have to check if you have alot of room or you have equal defenders or more defenders. In the case you had you had 2 pieces against I think I remember their 3 pieces which is enough to not get mated. In the endgame bring the king.
Jul 23, 2025
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#5
If you see a move like Kh1 after the move O-O then be suspicious. If not no. I don’t know why you are even thinking of your opponent cheating. I think I know why but I won’t specify it and no one else should.
Jul 23, 2025
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#6
Josh11live wrote:
Also in your endgame what is Ke6? You spent 4 min which was not necessary and if you were scared to being mated you have to check if you have alot of room or you have equal defenders or more defenders. In the case you had you had 2 pieces against I think I remember their 3 pieces which is enough to not get mated. In the endgame bring the king.
Ke6 was anticipating Rd5 which would have forced Ke6 anyway. Couldn't find a better move. Ke6 considered excellent by the engine. Best move apparently was to sacrifice a pawn and then, if taken, to sacrifice the other pawn. That is a pure engine line - I defy anyone at my level to see that as progressive,
Jul 23, 2025
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#7
Josh11live wrote:
If you see a move like Kh1 after the move O-O then be suspicious. If not no. I don’t know why you are even thinking of your opponent cheating. I think I know why but I won’t specify it and no one else should.
The question comes from how clinical and clean every move was played in a fairly complex position. I'm a 1300 player, who plays a lot of other 1200 - 1400 players and this purity and unwavering precision is distinctly out of place:
2 Brilliant
1 Great
15 Best
6 Excellent
5 Book
Noted the (retrospectively obvious upon review) mistake not to take the bishop and allow knight check. But every subsequent move was effortlessly perfect from the opponent. Hence the suspicion of using engines. The rerouting and pawn manipulation into seamless mating net felt like playing a bot.
You can’t tell from a game like this whether someone was cheating. You fell into a book trap that lost material. After that, white had a winning position that was simple to convert. Yes, it may seem like white played brilliantly. But the combination is one that has been known for over a century. Just bad luck that your opponent was familiar with it.
Jul 23, 2025
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#9
Discussions about potential cheating and public accusations are not allowed in the general forums.
https://www.chess.com/legal/community
If you think your opponent is cheating/sandbagging, you can report them using the reporting feature.
https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8562517-how-do-i-report-someone
If you want to discuss about cheating and what can be done about it etc., you can do it here:
https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum
Can someone review White's game. Amazing, or should I report?
https://www.chess.com/game/live/141008232708