is chess.com a scam?

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haroonzie wrote:

Chess.com is great, apart from how easy it is to install add-ons for cheating, almost 70-80% I played with are using those cheats, with insane champ moves in last 20sec...... you'll be surprised.

Chess.com needs to improve security and restrictions on browser level like every other online quiz website got, that you can't even right click or move away from the window, add-ons shouldn't be allowed on the window etc. so we'll get rid of these cheat hackers for good.

Chess.com, pl up the game, it's so freaking easy to cheat on here.

70-80% is not a realistic estimation of cheaters and your intuition is not good enough to identify one, definitely not based on a move or two.

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TheNameofNames wrote:
lmh50 wrote:

well, put it that way, it's 2 dollars per week. If you feel that chess.com as a chess club is worth 2 dollars a week, pay it. If you don't, don't. You can even play here for free, and that's certainly no scam.

you mean 2~ a day?

Does a year last ~50 days?

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Superplayer7472 wrote:
TheNameofNames wrote:
lmh50 wrote:

well, put it that way, it's 2 dollars per week. If you feel that chess.com as a chess club is worth 2 dollars a week, pay it. If you don't, don't. You can even play here for free, and that's certainly no scam.

you mean 2~ a day?

Does a year last ~50 days?

i cant remember why i said that

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If you want somebody to take action then it's best to have evidence much better than "trust me bro".

Obviously anti-cheat can be improved (and I believe it steadily is improved) but it's not an easy task or a task that will just be finished one day. For example what good is a ton of work put into anti add-on stuff and mouse cursor restrictions when ppl can just look at their phone/tablet then? You waste developer time for an easily defeatable feature and are not one step closer to solving the problem.

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haroonzie wrote:
It's not hard to spot an 800-1100 playing like a 2500, it's not about a move or two, the whole game is rigged in these cases. Besides, instead of arguing, why won't you urge chess.com to apply necessary restrictions? I often find cheaters defending such foul activities with a narrative that maybe "you weren't good enough". Apologies but perhaps you're unaware of how corrupted most people are these days.

Alexeivich94 wrote:
haroonzie wrote:

Chess.com is great, apart from how easy it is to install add-ons for cheating, almost 70-80% I played with are using those cheats, with insane champ moves in last 20sec...... you'll be surprised.

Chess.com needs to improve security and restrictions on browser level like every other online quiz website got, that you can't even right click or move away from the window, add-ons shouldn't be allowed on the window etc. so we'll get rid of these cheat hackers for good.

Chess.com, pl up the game, it's so freaking easy to cheat on here.

70-80% is not a realistic estimation of cheaters and your intuition is not good enough to identify one, definitely not based on a move or two.

I said your estimate is far from realistic, no doubt cheaters exist. But 80% of players at 1100 dont play like 2500s. I feel chess.com are doing enough as it is to control cheating.

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I seem to remember a study about how dishonest/unethical people assume the rest of us are just as dishonest & unethical, but chances are ... they're not.

just saying, not accusing anyone of anything. although personally I was not aware of the existence of cheating add-ons. how convinient, gotta look into that. [kidding, obviously]

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There's so many ways to cheat if you want to that imo the focus of cheat detection should basically be on gameplay alone - because then it doesn't matter if you have cheat addons, cheat on your phone or a GM sits next to you, you'll be found out eventually.

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Jane_Eyree wrote:

Yeah, it's a scam

I lost rs 549 yesterday, because of try for rs 0.00.

This is the scam, where they mislead people.

You probably didn't cancel it after the 7 days were up, so it charged you. Message support and you might get a refund, no promises though

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Yup chess.com is a scam.

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HangingPiecesChomper wrote:

Yup chess.com is a scam.

i knew it

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StandStarter wrote:
Jane_Eyree wrote:

Yeah, it's a scam

I lost rs 549 yesterday, because of try for rs 0.00.

This is the scam, where they mislead people.

You probably didn't cancel it after the 7 days were up, so it charged you. Message support and you might get a refund, no promises though

You will definitely get a refund - it might take a little while (especially if you paid via Apple) but they get it sorted out evenutally.