How Do You Know When a Player is Cheating?

Hello - I’ve been playing on here off and on for a bit. I recently came back from a year or so away so my rating is yo yo but I’m not a highly rated player anyway.

At any rate I just finished a game with a player that was rated around my rating 580 give or take a few. He started the match with “good game lol” lol then threw out Chess Moves in writing extremely fast like three four moves ahead. He’s rated 580 or thereabouts. None of the moves really were like a 580 at all at least from my inexperienced perspective. Not a single blunder etc. his profile says he’s been a member for just over 20 days and has won every match he’s played…. Seems kinda odd doesn’t it? Maybe I just had a straight up bad match. Totally possible. Just seemed weird. Once I called him on it his play suddenly slowed way down and he was no longer aggressive.

How do you guys know if the person you’re playing is cheating on here?

If you feel any other member is using disallowed resources you should just report them.

https://support.chess.com/article/209-how-do-i-report-someone

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