turn based chess opponants

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Rich-McDermott_OLD

Will chess.com automatically match me with a opponent  closest to my rating or just a random person within my max- min settings?

 I only need to know this infomation for online turn based chess.

Thanks

SpiritLancer

I believe anyone who submits a challenge where both of your rating specifications overlap is placed in a pool and then one is chosen randomly. I could be wrong though.

RG1951

        My online opponents are evenly spread over my stated range. If they were supposed to be closest to me, bearing in mind the large number of people to choose from, they would be from a noticeably narrower range.

Rich-McDermott_OLD
LongIslandMark wrote:

As I understand from posts from staff in other theads, the matching was changed recently to try to find you an opponent closest to your rating, among other criteria. The other criteria being things like how long you take to move, if you timeout/abandon games, if you are on the "suspect" list (I presume this is suspected cheaters), you are titled, etc.

Yes, i read that too, i wasn't sure whether that just applied to live games.