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There are too many cheaters on this site
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Dec 10, 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-december-2025#FairPlay
The site closed over 126,000 accounts in November 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
https://www.chess.com/cheating
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
Is anything being done to better filter cheaters, the patterns are so obvious, someone stars taking the same amount of time for deliberation after every move mid game when he starts losing, and suddenly he starts playing flawlessly, the ones who do this usually disable the chat knowing they will get called out, I encounter 2-3 guys like this almost every time I play, it's very demotivating and subtracts from the chess experience.
Users [removed] & [removed- MS] , 2 examples from today that are guaranteed cheaters from the artificial flow and timing of their game... and yet very little is being done to eliminate these partial cheaters...
Besides wasting everyone's time including their own, it's a very stupid and unethical thing to do. I hope this site can somehow find a way to spot this very common selective cheating pattern...