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New Players Stay away from Chess.com. Just go to Lichess.
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Play OTB. Play against a chess computer, engine or a program on your computer. What do you accomplish complaining about something you can't do anything about?
I literally won against a 2050 elo bot but my elo is 600 for some reason
Mar 27, 2025
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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-march-2025#FairPlay
The site closed more than 100,000 accounts in February 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
That said, discussions of cheating, potential cheating, or cheat detection are not allowed in the general forums. If you want to discuss join the following club, once you've been a member for at least 30 days https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum
Chess.com does absolutely nothing about the closet cheaters lingering around the 600 elo mark , all they care about is the high rated cheaters, they couldnt care less about the countless scumbags that are closet cheating down here, and it makes platform unplayable for anyone that is new and trying to LEARN chess, Lichess is really youre only option unfortunately until they actually begin addressing these issues, the only reason to use chess.com at this level is really for bots, which don't improve your chess much anyways.