Chess.com is infested with cheaters - so I quit

Some people lost their common sense...

#117

Paragraph one- fair enough, I didn't see him do that. That is simply awful behaviour that chess.com shouldn't tolerate.

Paragraph 2- it is against chess.con rules to make threads about cheaters, (I meant illegal as in the chess.com sense, not the law sense, I guess my metaphor afterwards was probably confusing, sorry.) chess.com sees a cheating thread, sees that the poster didn't take the time to read the rules, is being a hypocrite, and so they won't take you seriously. Just send them a ticket. Saves you time, saves them time, might get a result.

Paragraph three- thanks, although I doubt they actually check cheaters only reported by one person, I'd imagine at least three people have to report someone before they are investigated- chess.com gets hundreds of cheating accusations a day, most of which are false.

I read Jayesh Sinha's posts - and found them to be excellent and very reasonable.  Just my two cents.

Oh my...

Bye.

First, 1400 is not that low of a rating.  In Rapid Chess, a rating of 1401 puts the player in the top 12% of active Chess.com Rapid players.

Second, a knowledgeable cheater has to be concerned about being caught, and many will try to keep "under the radar."

My experience is that I have won many games against opponents whose accounts were later closed for cheating.  In most cases, their accounts were closed within a few months after I played them so they probably started cheating before I played them, they just didn't cheat in our game.  Typically, the banned players (both the ones that I beat, and the ones that beat me) had a rating of around 1400 when I played them and around 1600 when their accounts were closed.

@ambrooks- Thx

 

@VincentVonJames - I must say I enjoyed reading your post. You seem a chill cool guy and talk sense. I get what you are trying to say about chess.com ignoring most cheat threads. However do ask yourself, how many people actually read the conditions before joining. Most of us just tick the box and be done with it.

 

So ignoring threads on cheats on what is essentially a 'technicality' of not having been brought up in the right way again is indicative of the point that I have been making that chess.com could toughen up on cheats and cheating.

 

The point that three people must report a person before chess.com further supports the point that more could be done. Just because a player who cheated again player A, didnt also cheat against 2 more players and thus only 1 person reported him, doesn't exactly make that players cheating against that 1 player okay.

 

If what you say is true, then chess.com is effectively saying hey we are okay with you cheating just one person or two even, but don't go beyond that. Doesn't spell out a cheating is not tolerated here.

 

Thats the only thing I am saying. I don't hate the site or anything, hell I am a $$$ member here. Why would I subscribe if I didn't like the site. I don't know what saying chess.com could do more against cheat touches a nerve with some people (not you, but some for sure).

#125

Fair enough, ha ha. I ticked the box, and only read about those rules myself when I saw threads closed and by reading the staff's comments on those threads. (Although I never have made one myself)

And your right, more could be done. How they would do it with the staff, money, etc. Is more difficult.

Maybe in the next few years when A.I admins are cheaper, more reliable and more of a thing we can expect faster and more serious removal of the relatively low number of cheaters we do have on the site.

Cheaters are not the problem here. Flaggers and Vacation Abusers are our enemy.

There should be an automatic flagging detection.

Pfffffffffff.


Our enemy is people who complain when someone says "well played" and who think winning by time shouldn't be allowed.

Also known as "trolls".