What accuracy would you consider suspicious?

1969beginner · 2023-10-13T04:26:26-07:00

I've met 2 players with unusually high accuracy. One with an accuracy in the upper 90's, who was found to be cheating. Another with low 80s, which I've never seen in my bracket. This one was suspicious to me. The person played fairly fast for someone with such a high accuracy. The

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Martin_Stahl

Oct 13, 2023

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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

Accuracy isn't a good metric for cheat detection in general; see the video in the second link.

That said, discussions about 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

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