Does Chess.com use Bots as Players on their live Games?

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TheDifferenceOfTier5 wrote:

there's no banned players in my history

20 players banned for the lack of fair play and 6 players banned for abuse in your game history I see

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overbehind wrote:

You can put yours opponent's elo search window as tight as possible and within seconds you will find a player even at 2200-2300 elo or even higher, where less than couple of thousands people total play. Statistically this makes no sense, but it the case here. With each year they bot situation is getting worse due to less people playing since the latest chess boom.

The reason I am not playing 45/45 and 60/0 games is that I had to wait for at least 20 minutes for a game, sometimes more. If they were using bots, I would get those games the way you describe. And all that on 1700 level, even much lower than that. If they were using bots, that would not happen. There are more gaps in the pool that have the same problem as well. In blitz and bullet there are simply enough people around 2200 level for everyone to get games quickly.

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I don't know if chess.com uses bots although I have my doubts. But what I am reasonably sure of is if they are catching the number of cheaters they say they are, there are a large number of cheaters who aren't being caught. It is easy to catch a bot playing perfect chess. It isn't so easy to catch a bot intentionally playing less than perfect chess. There are still ways to try and catch such (variations in move time being one way), but to believe they are catching them all; it just isn't logical.

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jrm05 hat geschrieben:

Im pretty sure they use bot as humans players. im a normal 1400 player and i played everyday. I am now 1100. Not because im too weak, i sometimes played 91% accuracy and the lowest was 59 or less on my worst. On my best at 1100 player, i battle with someone who is 88- 90% accurate most of the times with a weird names photos and etc. And at my worst, we are both below in accuracies. Means it depends how we played the game and the human bot depends on how you manage to counter those moves. You need to outplayed them on opening to midgame coz they crushed you instantly on midgames if you don't have enough skills. Im on Champion League Level. 

I am very annoyed on this Chess.com strategy. Did everyone notice that searching or finding opponents are too fast, unlike Lichess. 🤔

Bots are being used. The reason can only be guessed at, but it suggests there are more players than members, compared to when bots aren't used. The bots have monosystematic variants with a slightly rising curve. The bots almost never drop below 0.00. If a player plays weaker, a few weaker moves by the bot will level the playing field, or the player will lose. If the player plays well, better than usual, the player wins. It often seems to me that this is achieved by creating the illusion of unexpected time pressure. The game and the distribution of thinking time are fixed, not fluctuating.