What is stopping someone from cheating?

I wanna know if I'm going to spend more time here.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-cheat-detection

There is a very significant amount of cheating. Worse, when you accuse someone of cheating, half of the forum calls you a sore loser thereby enabling more cheating.

The other half says you just are not very good and when an average player beats a lousy player, that's not cheating.

Hmm I guess I should just join a local club.

It took a while, but my wife has finally realized I am not cheating on her. I really do have a chess set and when I go upstairs to "check mate" I am not browsing dating sites. She can't accuse me of being checkmated either because I leave my cell phone downstairs.

If you are actually interested, you should read some of the articles chess.com has put out about its efforts.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-cheat-detection

 https://www.chess.com/blog/News/new-tools-for-fair-play-on-chess-com

There is a lot more available in the Cheating Forum.

They don't allow discussions here because it invariably turns into unsubstantiated nastiness.

To discuss the matter of cheating further, or to learn more about cheat detection, please join the Cheating Forum: https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum

Chess.com takes cheating very seriously: see

https://www.chess.com/blog/News/new-tools-for-fair-play-on-chess-com
https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-com-fair-play-and-cheat-detection https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444879-fair-play-on-chess-com-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.chess.com/blog/DanielRensch/cheating-on-chesscom

Cheaters are banned when they are detected. There are various tools that are used to keep them from returning without permission; these tools are familiar to anyone who has run an online forum.

However, discussions of cheating in the main forum is not permitted, as it tends to become very heated and result in lots of public accusations, many of which are completely unfounded; you might be surprised how many cheating reports we get about low-rated players after a game that was a complete blunderfest. If all these reports were aired in public, it would just cause an ugly flame war. Therefore, I am locking this post.

To report a suspected cheater to the Support team, please select Report Abuse under the Help menu, or use this link: https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new. All reports are investigated, even if there is no immediate visible action.

Thanks,
BartSimpson50 - moderator