Is chess.com filled with bots

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asvpcurtis

From my experience and from comparing chess.com to OTB tournaments and Lichess the Website feels like it's filled with very bot-like players. super tactical and trappy but terrible positional play.

Did chess.com put these players in to make it appear as if the website has more players than it actually has and that instead it is actually dying?

Vegosiux

I think it's more of a paradigm shift in the game coming from so much computer analysis. Everyone learns the "cool moves" and tries to play chess as a blitzkrieg, rather than the slow positional play.

Vertwitch

Yes there are way too many ways to cheat 

and if you don’t cheat you don’t win against someone cheating so you are incentivized to cheat 

CraigIreland

There's no incentive to cheat unless your personal aspirations stretch as far as becoming the input middleman of a computer program or you've somehow arrived at the belief that someone other than yourself cares about your rating.

MorningGlory84
Luizguarana wrote:
people being rude

Disable chat.

asvpcurtis

Nevermind I was just being a whiner because my brain wasn't working and I couldn't do tactics, brain is working again and I'm not falling for stupid gimmicky tricks anymore. It still annoying as crap though when people play bad moves just to try to trap you.

easytarget
Or the more plausible explanation is they just made a bad move.
shaktidevii

very botty and proppy in the forums, at least happy.png 

Chessflyfisher

Most people would not pass the Turing Test.

asvpcurtis

@easytarget nah these guys are desperate players that know they can't outplay me positionally. you can sense these things