Being called a cheater

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Just sharing something with you guys. I was playing some chess after a long day just trying to chill and I play against this guy. From the get go he messages me and says: 'your winrate is sus', 'you're a cheater' stuff like that. Ok, whatever let's play. I get out of the opening, I get a nice position, while he makes a couple of inaccuracies and I take advantage of that. And he surrenders on move 12. The game wasn't over but whatever, in his mind I was definitely a cheater so why keep going, was probably what he was thinking. Now if you check the game you can see that I missed an obvious tactic there on move 9, which probably wouldn't happen if I was cheating. chess.com post analysis shows me playing with 99% accuracy which doesn't mean anything because the game was mostly just me getting a good opening and spotting a tactic after missing one. But he probably reported me, and idk what the chess.com policy is, or whether I will get banned, to me its completely unreasonable but this is the life of 1200 rated players ("if you play good you're a cheater"). Anyway long story short, I didn't cheat. I know I have a good win/loss ratio but that's because I play 1-2 games a day, I analyze them and just basically learn a bit day by day. Some games I have over 90% accuracy but if you check the games, these are normal games where the bar even switches on my opponent's favor from time to time because I do make mistakes. So, I know some of you will think: "If i wasn't a cheater then why am I explaining myself and making this post". And you're right idk why I am doing this, but don't think about it too much because I don't care either. Getting banned won't stop me from playing chess and improving.

Avatar of eric0022

If you are innocent (which should be the case), no amount of reporting by players will cause your account to be closed.

 

On the other hand, for me I will usually ignore it, but I do usually report players for verbal abuse/accusations from time to time.

Avatar of StumpyBlitzer

Hi, 

Please no discussion of cheating in the general forums please, join the cheating forum 

https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

Please report players if suspicious or harassing you 

https://support.chess.com/article/209-how-do-i-report-someone

 

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