Chess.com is becoming Bad

        "Cheating" is breaking the rules. Trying to win on time is not breaking the rules. Therefore it is not cheating. Your claim is illogical....plain and simple.

If a player uses premoves to win on time or to seek a draw, then that's obviously cheating.  It's similar to grabbing the timer in a chess tournament and making the clock move extremely slow for you while it moves at its regular speed for your opponent.  

Let's be honest here..  everyone knows that if you use premoving to win a game on time or to take a game to a draw, you are pathetic.  It means that you could not do it on your own and needed to use an online cheat.  

Have you ever played online games where guys use lag to affect games or to gain an advantage.  It's the same principle.  You're doing something that you know is not a part of the game itself and you're trying to use it to your advantage..  it's what is known as an online cheat.  

darth doom...obviosuly you are a "rabbble rouser" judging by your posts, you like to stir the pot.  Thats fine...there are plenty here that do the same thing.  But to say pre-move is cheating is incorrect.  You have a choice to not allow pre-move, its up to you.

Yes.  I agree...  if you are using pre-moves to level the playing field due to a lag in your connection that sort of makes sense.  However, most cheaters will begin premoving when there is less than 30 seconds remaining in order to get timed victories or even timed draws.  That's cheating plain and simple.  It happens a lot on chess.com and the feature is being abused to "cheat" in matches where there is no possibility of winning fairly.

If you think that 30 seconds is not enough time to checkmate an opponent, than clearly you haven't played enough bullet. But what if you had 5 seconds? How would you win if you were a queen up. Look down for the answer.

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That's right. You CHEAT. End of story.

Has anyone else noticed that Chess.com is becoming filled with a bunch of very, very bad chess players?

Think about it for a second. 

1. Lack of Sportsmanship
2. Time victory cheaters
3. Premoving
4. Win at all costs bad people
5. Lack of Common courtesy

Is this really what chess is supposed to be about?

In timed chess, players on chess.com often don't even play to win by achieving a checkmate.  They move around the board and use premoves to work towards timed victories even though they cannot possibly win.  I even watched a tournament game where one player checked the other 30 times in repetition in the same two squares over and over again.  Rather than offer a draw or even receiving credit for a draw, the other opponent used his premoving feature and won on time with less than 5 seconds remaining on his clock.  That was pathetic.  It was one of the most horrible games to watch and the player from Russia was proud of the fact that he received credit for a "timed victory" even though the game was clearly a draw.  It could not possibly be a timed victory in real life especially with only his 5 seconds remaining to his opponents 1:01 seconds.  It was very very bad and the game play of that Russian made my stomach turn in disgust.  That Russian player didn't even end up winning the tournament which I came in second place after defeating a bunch of wimps and losing to another player because he used premoves and moved around the board aimlessly.

Why would this chess site continue to allow people to do this in timed chess matches that supposedly count towards ratings?  How could this be just?  How is this not something that all decent chess players would be against?

I understand that there must be difficulties in running a chess site, but to promote cheating online is very very bad and it actually is a disservice to the game of chess.  It is not fair competition and there is nothing good about what is happening here.  or should I say what is being allowed to happen under the guise of what is considered "allowed".  In fact, the site even provides for it knowing full well that it is creating bad chess players.

If you were to do that to anyone who you know personally, then that person would not have a good opinion of you as a chess player.  There is chess etiquette I believe but it really seems lacking here.  

Isn't that something that is wrong?  Isn't that something that all good chess players should stand against?  

I have been told by such cheaters that I should not play 3/0 chess or blitz matches, but the fact is that they should not be playing blitz matches if they have to cheat to win.  It is a problem that is very prevalent here and no one with the power to do something about it really seems interested in doing the right thing which would be to get rid of such cheating!  

This is simply not right.  Perhaps I am the only one to say this on this site, but I had to say it because what is happening here is very very bad.