Abuse of restricted tournaments?

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I recently started playing in tournaments, both open and restricted, and have so far enjoyed them a lot! I repeatedly ran into a weird incident however, which is below-1200 tournaments being won by players with a rating around 700. Checking their games I noticed that they won most, if not all of their games, with an accuracy of 90+ against much higher rated opponents. To me, there seem to be only to options, the first one being engine use, the second one being that a much higher rated player created a new account only to win tournaments againts weaker players (like me). What is the correct response in these situations? It should be a violation of chess.com's fair-play-policy in both cases, so I consequently reported them. Was I right to do so? Is there maybe something else I can do? Thanks in advance for your answers!

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DarthGoldfish wrote:

I recently started playing in tournaments, both open and restricted, and have so far enjoyed them a lot! I repeatedly ran into a weird incident however, which is below-1200 tournaments being won by players with a rating around 700. Checking their games I noticed that they won most, if not all of their games, with an accuracy of 90+ against much higher rated opponents. To me, there seem to be only to options, the first one being engine use, the second one being that a much higher rated player created a new account only to win tournaments againts weaker players (like me). What is the correct response in these situations? It should be a violation of chess.com's fair-play-policy in both cases, so I consequently reported them. Was I right to do so? Is there maybe something else I can do? Thanks in advance for your answers!

It's not weird but you have join the Cheating Forum club to discuss it.

Cheating discussions are not allowed in the main forum.

Reporting it is all you can do.

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Oops, I didn't know that. That explains why I didn't find a specific thread concerning this topic. However I got the answer I wanted, so feel free to delete this thread admins

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better go to gym or play dota man

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Chess.com takes cheating very seriously: for the most recent statistics, see https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-com-month-in-review-april-2020

For some insight into the work that Chess.com does in this area, see:
https://www.chess.com/blog/News/new-tools-for-fair-play-on-chess-com
https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-cheat-detection
https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com
https://www.chess.com/blog/DanielRensch/cheating-on-chesscom
http://pubs.royle.com/publication/?i=469188&article_id=2985800&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5

See also

However, discussions of cheating in the main forum is not permitted, as it tends to become very heated and result in lots of public accusations, many of which are completely unfounded; I am therefore locking this post.

To report a suspected cheater to the Support team, please select Report Abuse under the Help menu, or use this link: https://support.chess.com/article/346-contact-us. All reports are investigated, even if there is no immediate visible action.

To discuss the matter of cheating further, or to learn more about cheat detection, please join the Cheating Forum: https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum (Please note that you need to have been a member for more than a month to be accepted into this club, which is in itself a cheating prevention measure)

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David, moderator

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