We aren't playing real people on chess.com

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Avatar of keep1teasy

I won a bunch of games. It seems like something's up - I lose material, but if i keep playing fast then my opponents usually blunder their stuff back. Why do they do this? I am convinced that they are not real people. Real people wouldn't make such mistakes.

For example, my 2270 opponent:

This is unacceptable. 

Sometimes, I even find people playing different openings against me. Everybody knows that you should control the center, but I even saw someone play 1...c5. Obviously people don't play moves such as these because we all know that we are taught to play 1.e4 e5. Clearly these people are not humans on chess.com.

Sometimes, my opponents are playing very well and beating me but then make mistakes. These people are clearly using the engine; I only win because they got too slow or turned their engine off, allowing me to win my games.

Sometimes, I will be playing and get into a winstreak. This is clearly an example of matchmaking manipulation. When you win a game, you should play someone harder, not easier. Winstreaks and loss streaks are the clearest example of matchmaking manipulation. 

Why does it seem like I am playing computers until they suddenly play like humans? This needs to stop. 

Not only that, but I've improved fastest when I didn't have premium. Now that I have premium, chess.com pairs me up against harder opponents, lowering my real rating. I should be rated 2690 but I am stuck in the 2300s. This is obviously a ploy to make sure people do not buy premium on chess.com in the future. To protest this, I will be staying as a premium member and I hope many others will do the same.

Avatar of SpeedyCyclone

To be honest, I agree with your post in a way, but I think that the first sac was to gain space with his rook and double on the file and the second was to win the queen. since you said they moved fast I guess they didn't calculate. I know that these are objectively losing though.

Avatar of Deranged

You're funny Bizmark grin.png

We should all become premium members to protest this!

Avatar of keep1teasy
Deranged wrote:

You're funny Bizmark

We should all become premium members to protest this!

you get it!

Avatar of ricorat

I should be at least 2500, but unfortunately there are so many engine users like in this game below

 

 

Look at this players flawless technique, I think we can all agree something is fishy here. I think chess.org is far superior than this site.

Avatar of Queen_Brynja

Nobody else is real!

Embrace solipsism!

 

Peace and Goodnight <3

Avatar of Nimzowitsch

Even real GMs play 1… c5 OTB

Avatar of icyyyyspeed
ChessPawn921 wrote:

Even real GMs play 1… c5 OTB

r/whooooosh

Avatar of Nimzowitsch

Though I do agree: 1… e5 > 1… c5

Avatar of keep1teasy

 

 

Avatar of FakeKeanu

Hi

Avatar of Extremely_Dynamic_Guy7

i hope this is a joke 

Avatar of hvenki

lmao

Avatar of colorfulcake

real people? what is this nonsense?

Avatar of aLOGYCAL

This is crazy! We must all spend some money to protest this >D

Avatar of SparkFight

Sussy among us

Avatar of TomoMod

I'll just clarify since some people do believe there's a difference between premium and basic members' matchmaking.

 

You are always playing real players in live and play chess, unless specifically challenging bots.

Premium and normal members have the same matchmaking, there is no difference in live games.

Avatar of miskit_mistake

Ok then but are the servers real?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/are-we-really-playing-people-on-this-server

Avatar of JamesColeman
TomoMod wrote:

You are always playing real players in live and play chess, unless specifically challenging bots.

Premium and normal members have the same matchmaking, there is no difference in live games.

 

Obviously B1zmark's post was ironic, but are you sure about the second part? I was certainly under the impression that it aims to pair premiums together if possible, before widening the pairing parameters if needed?

Avatar of InsertInterestingNameHere

what’s a “real person”, never heard of em