Considered cheating!!!????

I read on here that your account can be deleted for using a computer to play the computer on here!!!! Why????? I could understand it if you were playing against other people without telling them, but why do they care if you just play the computer, for crying out loud. It doesn't affect your rating.

Its a Trap!!

Why? Because it's unfair. However, if you play an UNRATED game and computer use IS AGREED upon, it is allowed.

 Read my post for cryen out loud!!!!!!! I said against the computer, not another player.

What would stop someone from playing rated games exclusively against the computer in this way to inflate their rating?

It's against the rules for the same reason as having two accounts and playing games between them to inflate the rating of one of the accounts is.

Unless of course, you mean Little Chess Partner, in which case I suspect you've been misinformed.  I can't imagine why that would be an issue....

Why would you manually use a chess engine to play against the Chess.com chess engine if it doesn't affect your rating anyway?

If you like watching engines beat each other, you could download, say, the Arena chess GUI, which comes with a LOT of very strong free engines like Rybka 2.2n, Spike 1.2, etc, then you download more free chess engines like Stockfish and Firebird, then you can hold a Grand Engine Tournament on your computer where all these chess engines play against each other with whatever time control you want, whatever opening books you want, etc, to your great satisfaction. Isn't that infinitely better!?

And anyway, contrary to your first post, the Live Chess computer engines actually play rated games. So it DOES affect your rating, which is why it is illegal to employ engines against them.

I think TheGrobe and PurplePuppy covered the relevant points.

 I'm not interested in inflating a totally meaningless rating. Also I didn't know you could play a rated game against the computer.

I wonder how easy it could beat my hand held kids toy chess player. Top rating 1750.

Well, if you're looking to benchmark the strength of the live chess computers there's no real need -- they're in the same rating pool as everyone else in live chess and get their ratings adjusted just like a human player would after each win, loss and draw.  You should be able to simply look at their rating to determine where they stack up in terms of relative performance within that pool.

If you're wondering about the strength of Little Chess Partner, then I'm sure there's no problem.

If you're wondering about the strength of the hand-held, I'd suggest downloading one of the many free engines and testing it out that way.

Why not just play the computer unrated?

Yeah, if you can do that I'd expect there should be no issues there either.

LOL

I paid this post no mind till I read who it was posted by + pic.

What is the troll poster for?

 I guess he thinks it's clever.