Hah and my latest report actually resulted in a ban.... maybe this post helped, who knows....
Has Chess.com given up on finding cheaters?
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Jan 19, 2026
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it could be that there's less proof to catch cheaters on, but i don't know anything all my reports get a response
Jan 19, 2026
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i got spanked by a 300 the other day and i reported him out of embarrassment and he happened to be a cheater so I mean, they crack down on it but I feel like less players care about actively reporting it anymore
#1 it happens. Sometimes you are lucky and you don't play against cheaters, then you are unlucky and you play against loads of them. And the big pause you are talking about is something we call reevaulating. They think about every line. You've improved a lot, and you've arrived to the level where this happens.
Jan 19, 2026
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The perception of cheating levels is orders of magnitude more than the actual amount. The vast majority of games and players are clean.
https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com
https://www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating
https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-january-2026#FairPlay
The site closed over 136,000 accounts in December for fair play violations and has a full team of staff working on reports along with some automated systems for detection.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/fair-play
https://www.chess.com/cheating
That said, discussions of cheating, potential cheating, or cheat detection are not allowed in the general forums. If you would like to discuss join the following club.
https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum
When I started, I'd regularly have mails from Chess.com with remediative action from cheaters. But recently that's completely dried up, and at the same time there seems to be more and more games where there's a big pause and all of a sudden the opponent only plays best moves from there on. Anyone else noticing this?