chess.com supports cheating

chess.com noticed my ad blocker but never noticed when I played on uneven playing field that is against somebody who uses premove. The computer should select players who play on level playing field. By the way, do you have premove in real life chess game? I do not think so.

All I expect from Chess.com is to pair players on level playing field. Not making sure this basic requirement makes you pause and think whether chess.com is dedicated to fair play or something else...

A premove in the hood is putting police mannequins in cars. No one says that is cheating.

The playing field IS level: everyone has the option to use premoves; it is your choice that you do not. They are not cheating, but a calculated gamble that the time advantage gained outweighs the risk of making a blunder. This is generally only worth it when time is at a premium, such as in the time scramble at the end of a blitz game or in a bullet game.

"it is your choice that you do not"

It seems it wasn't their choice to have premoves available or not. Just because you can offer that feature doesn't mean you should. Is there a game option to play games without premoves? Or is premoves something chess.com imposes on all members?

I don't like the pre-move option either but as long as it's available to everyone, there's nothing unfair about it.  No, you don't have a pre-move option in OTB games.  But in OTB games, you also don't get to move your king two squares and have the rook automatically move to complete the castle.  And in OTB games, you have to record the moves manually.  An online game cannot be just like an OTB game.

I don't use pre-moves because I don't like the idea of committing myself to my next move before my opponent moves.  I've won a number of speed games because my opponent guessed wrong - not because I made an unusual or illogical move - but just because I made a logical move that was not the one he guessed I would make. 

"as long as it's available to everyone, there's nothing unfair about it."

What could be unfair is that we can only play with that as an option. If we don't want to play with premoves, then it is unfair because then our opponent will have an advantage. If we don't want to play with premoves allowed, that should be a choice too. Is it? I don't know for certain.

Is there a checkbox that says, "PLAY GAMES WITH PREMOVES ALLOWED"? Then we can uncheck it if we don't want to play with premoves.

Theoretically, any setting value could be turned into a seek filter; how about people who don't have auto-Queen promotion turned on? Or only people who haven't disabled in game chat?

By adding more criteria, you are restricting the pool of potential opponents and therefore would need to wait longer for a game. I would suggest that for premoves, it would mean that people would have to wait quite a long time for a game - most people just don't feel that it's an issue.

Good point and I agree.

is it fair to ride a 500cc bike in a 250cc race? You may say why don't you also play with pre move? Well, why don't you play without it? Obviously because it gives you advantage. The selecting computer program should make sure that everybody plays with the same features.

You don't seem to understand - you DO have the same feature. What you are asking is to play people with the same setting for a given feature. Chess.com does not provide this particular option at this point in time and does not view the lack of such filter as facilitating cheating. You could make a suggestion, but I think it is unlikely it would be included, as demand for this particular filter is almost certainly very low.

"you DO have the same feature." IMPOSED ON YOU

That is like allowing smoking anywhere in a restaurant, you are telling non-smokers they are free to smoke. Maybe they want a non-smoking area.

so how can someone move so fast that it is physically impossible without external help like pre move?

... and speed is very important....

I actually started using the pre-move features feature against certain opponents.  If I could predict their next few moves and I don't want to wait too long for my turn then I would use it.  I have a few opponents who take too long to make a single move.  So, I figured that if I set up the pre-moves, it would help to speed up the game progress.  One opponent I am playing against is losing badly but he refused to resign so I set up the pre-moves to get him to make a few moves in one sitting.  I make the careful calculations before I set up the pre-moves.  Last month, I contacted the support team to inquire about pre-moves and one employee explained to me how it works and I understood how it works.  It's not cheating.  What's more, I may not remember what my game plan would be if the opponent keeps me waiting and I am trying to play up to 20 games a day.  Having the computer engine to help you to make moves is considered as cheating.  

Just use pre-moves too man. Stop acting so petulant cos you lost a game to some guy. Pre-moves exist especially for fast games. Playing 1 min w/o premoves is tough.

Oh right!  I got confused between conditional moves & pre-moves.  Thanks for the clarification.