ELO Gatekeepers

But how ? You would literally have to end up playing nothing but cheaters all the time ?

what does gatekeeper mean

how can i do this

The one who keeps the gate

mm. It's all clear to me now.... i block.... and i report.

Nah it's a conspiracy theory lol. Why would chess.com care?

Besides if you really care so much go to lichess.org and stop complaining. Otherwise it just means you like complaining.

>googleable vocabulary word

>doesn't google it

>why is it always like this?

Welcome to the internet. Where people forget that search engines exist.

Bro I've been stuck at 1200 for the past few weeks I'm not that good

I’m sorry if I troubled you.

last time I searched google:

this is what I got:

OTF = Off-Topic Forums, I'm guessing ...

That, or: Overly Tough Frogs

I have looked at your last 6 losses. None of your opponents appears to be using an engine. They make loads of mistakes. You make more.

occasionally they have a high accuracy rate. But that is what happens when you make major blunders and they take advantage of them

That's the hardest roast you can get op

Look at the last 10 games - even Chesscom has noticed an ELO gatekeeper in one of them! And how many are ignored? That's the majority. Accuracy doesn't matter at all because ELO gatekeepers adapt to their opponent's play, no matter how many blunders or mistakes the opponent makes. They mirror their opponent and play just a little bit better. ELO gatekeepers are not stupid and don't want to get caught.

What technology did you use to determine that this was not done in my games?

The only way to do it is to play a lot with 1000 rated opponents, to feel the AVERAGE REAL 1000 rated level. And then, when you are very deep in a particular game, to feel that the other side play at a completely different fundamental level despite of their mistakes. Single game statistics cannot convey this.

Check out their profiles too. Look at how their ratings swing back and forth between 950 and 1600. If you can beat a 1600 rated player on Chess.com, you'll never drop to 950 without bad intentions.

One of the cases where accuracy truly speaks volumes is in games where suspected one and his opponent have hilariously similar accuracy. Like 85.6 against 85.7 - at least one of them is ELO gatekeeper. When I checked their profiles, I found abnormal rating fluctuations (1350-900 and 1600-950). So, engine vs engine huh? Haha. And yet, such players are not banned. These "to the computer's accuracy" close games are not only short ones but often exceed 50 moves and sometimes even 100! In the 1000 level pool most of my suspected opponents have such wonders.

If the suspect also has Insights, you can see even stranger things there that a 1000 rating shouldn't have!

I dont think you can fluctuate 500 elo in a few days unless your account is fresh...

I was watching chess vibes today on youtube (Nelson Lopez), he played about 5 games and 2 of those games were against 'gatekeepers', which is obviously code for 'cheater' as they're preventing you from progressing. Those 2 have been banned. He played another game against someone who was clearly 'gatekeeping' as well, he has not been banned, in fact he resigned in a virtually neutral position as he couldn't make any progress as his checks kept being blocked and the engine was telling him to keep making the same moves, he got frustrated and resigned, make of that what you will.

I then skipped through Nelson's last 500 losses in Rapid chess, he had lost 64 times to banned players, meaning for every 7.8 losses he had, 1 was a definite cheat. That's a depressing stat, and they're the only one's who've been caught.

I don't know what chess.com can do against sophisticated cheats, because their algorithm can only catch dumb cheats. Maybe AI. But you're better off playing 5 minute blitz with increment then 10 minute rapid games as most players who use engines are in the Rapid pool.

Yes that is a common technique against cheaters. You build a rock solid position and, since the chess engine only look for optimal moves, the cheater cannot progress. That of course requires that the cheater is clueless about chess, while the opponent knows what they're doing.

Gothamchess has made a video in which he did exactly this against a cheater. I myself dont think I have the necessary skill to pull that off.

P.s.: But I cant help but notice we now openly talk about cheating, for which we have some special closed forum.

Did I mention somewhere that the rating fluctuates over a few days? They do swings - lose a lot of games almost in a row, then go back up and enjoy victories with the engine. The most important thing here is the overall rating amplitude, not how fast the rating fluctuates. Because, believe it or not - at Chesscom a honest level 1000 player can't win anything higher than 1200! I speak from 1.5 year experience. This is not Lichess, where the ELO gatekeepers are caught and I can win 1800+

Yes, that's sad.