So this untitled guy just got 342 in puzzle survival

Here's the link to his profile:

https://www.chess.com/member/josephreidnz

This puts him well above Benjamin Bok a 2600 GM who spent countless hours solving to get to 247. Something about this just doesn't add up.

He illegally boosts his other ratings too. Chess.com closed his account once, but wont close it again because they're very silly people.

This case really makes me lose alot of respect for chess.com.

I created a topic in the cheating forum where we have discussed this for months and still no account closure.  https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/second-chance-3?page=4

I've also emailed support about this twice to no avail.

It gets frustrating not being able to talk about cheating here so I posted about it on reddit yesterday which got a fair bit of attention: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/sbhfpg/apparently_cheating_in_puzzle_rush_on_chesscom_is/

(I stole this joke from John Bartholomew)

JosephreidNZ showing up to the puzzle rush world championships:

Ya, I agree, he should be permanently banned. He's been an annoying figure here for a while now with the constant rule breaking on leaderboards. 

:0

Just so the forum moderators know - I'm not making any accusations of cheating, rather just pointing out that it takes the top players in the world several hours to get to 200 and this untitled player who doesn't even have a fide rating reached 342.

342 puzzles without making 3 mouse slips would be hard, let alone solving the puzzle correctly.

What a high level game we have here... Llama, you are obviously jealous and completely plus utterly wrong.

The average chess.com staff member that reviews reports (rated -200)

"He's right, this is very high level. I'm glad we decided to not close."

Haha, amazing.

You shouldn't. People who cheat with the engine get caught sooner or later in most cases, and they will not spoil the fun. Sure, some will slip through the cracks, but most will be closed.

This guy is a bit different, it is more the case of a rating manipulation (pardon alleged manipulation), not the engine usage.

ok, so my puzzles pb is 3600:  it took me a few months of trying to finally hit 72 survival & just one of the 3800-rated puzzles on that run took me 3 days of staring at before i figured out the key move in the main line.

my goal was 100 but i had to call it quits for sanity-saving purposes... just saying that's my experience with the harder puzzles here.

i've been told that they only go up to 4000 difficulty so i'm not saying it's impossible to memorize the solutions (i don't ever intentionally do that because i enjoy the challenge), but considering the level of play exhibited in the example game i find this new record a little bit hard to believe.

I love #4

how can he have gotten 340 I beat him in 8 moves in KOTH

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/30852528631

lol

I wonder why he was reopened. 

Uh, no.

@edot12345 has just been closed for fair play violations. (His earlier account, @edot123 was closed a while back)

Lol, why, just why would people cheat in chess of all things?

yeah he's just been chilling. He's not only completely lying but kinda arrogant about his puzzle rush scores despite them, of course, not being real. I would love to see him try puzzles, live, against an actual GM.