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User agreement and Community policies will both answer your question.
Often asking here only results in members answering with misinformation and guessing.
User agreement > Fair play policies makes it very clear.
If still unsure- best to inquire of Staff and not depend on general guessing. Much of it is nothing more than being seen.
Nov 27, 2020
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#4
Pasted from the rules. Notice it says “at any time.” As in never. As in don’t even think about it.
No chess programs or engines (e.g. Chessmaster, Fritz, Komodo, Houdini, Stockfish, Chessbase with any active UCI engine, etc.) can be used to analyze positions in ongoing games at any time.
No chess programs or engines (e.g. Chessmaster, Fritz, Komodo, Houdini, Stockfish, Chessbase with any active UCI engine, etc.) can be used to analyze positions in ongoing games at any time.
Nov 27, 2020
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#5
you can play the bots and get computer help from chess.com itself if you set it to the 1-star option. there is no need to use an outside source.
Post #2 is one of the worst examples I’ve encountered - creating confusion while providing zero information.
Ahh... yep. #6 is the alternative. Unrated games are not monitored. A way to practice as such - comp vs comp.
Nov 27, 2020
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#7
Yeah, but you can’t flex to your friends or in forum posts without the ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Steven. Your post referencing your grievances from another thread is against policy. Grow up will ya ? I see you deleted the link - knowing it is against policy but left a reference. Childish behavior. And you wonder why I refuse to answer your insignificant inquires. It’s called “stalking”. Following members to another thread and posting off topic grievances with another member.
BadBishopJones3 wrote:
Post #2 is one of the worst examples I’ve encountered - creating confusion while providing zero information.
Ahh... yep. #6 is the alternative. Unrated games are not monitored. A way to practice as such - comp vs comp.
Post #10 is one of the worst examples of opinionatedness and authoritarianism, though. 
Nov 27, 2020
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#11
Whenever I am playing a bot, I always like to just tilt my head to the side and the say "Is that someone at the door?" and then when they look around take a couple of pawns or maybe a knight off the board.....sometimes works....sometimes I take my own knight or pawns off the board, because I am just THAT bad.
Nov 27, 2020
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#12
He who gets in the last word wins, Woolly! That’s why the “Is chess a draw” thread has over 5100 posts, and when it started Anand was world champ. Half the posts are people hurling insults, and the other half are just repetitions of points made from when Twilight was in theaters.
yes.
Since they allow so much cheating with so-called human vs human games, I can’t imagine anyone caring about cheating against a bot.
Apr 6, 2022
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#15
Unrated games in my experiences are rarely bots. Unless you mean when you play the actually computer. I play unrated games and talk with the other person in the chat.
Simple way to avoid 99% of cheats? Play Bullet. It takes time to input a move and play the best response, that they won't get.
Well, sometimes I use a slow wi fi and quit against bot and then rematch. By the time the card the says game over, you are the colour that won the previous match, so it says you win. Basically, cheat by pressing start new game against chess.com bot and the press rematch quickly.😁 No one can track that. Plus, you get all the stars. Not allowed but no one can track it.
Here is another way to literally cheat against. Take the two star option, (3 takebacks and hints), and then when you use all three, refresh, and then takeback once more without losing stars. Repeat the process each time you want to do an extra takeback against computer.
vihaan_redkar wrote:
Here is another way to literally cheat against. Take the two star option, (3 takebacks and hints), and then when you use all three, refresh, and then takeback once more without losing stars. Repeat the process each time you want to do an extra takeback against computer.
That does not work. "Hints" are bugged, they give you some random legal moves. Not something a real engine would play.
Does anyone know whether cheating is allowed when playing unrated games against bots? Seems like it might be fun, and it wouldn't hurt anybody, but I don't want to get banned for it