Cheating in the 1900-2000 range

Hi everyone

Since I had no luck in contacting the support and there was no action taken after I reported these players due to fair play, I decided to create this new topic in the "Help & Support" forum.

The first player was very suspicious to me because of 1. His new account; 2. Time usage; 3. High game accuracy; 4. Rating trajectory.
1. The accused player joined chess.com on the 3. November 2024. I played against him one day later on the 4. November. 2. His time usage was very suspicous, because he used 8 seconds on almost every move. Towards the end of the game I became increasingly more suspicous and threw in some obvious moves to test my theory. He also took 6 seconds to capture a free rook and 7 seconds to move his queen to safety. 3. His game accuracy of 95.7 % was very high, altough not impossible to reach in a rapid game. But an unusual ammount of moves were the engines top choice (20 out of 34). 4. Since his game against me his rapid rating fell to 1154. Very dubious for a player, who won against 1900-2000 rated players with such a high game accuracy just two months ago.

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Regards, Jabocaster

Edit: The second player [username removed - V39] was just banned . Thanks @chess.com support.

I'm happy to hear that chess.com took action, but next time, no naming specific members with cheating accusations and also discussion of cheating isn't allowed in the public forums, so please keep all discussions around cheating in this club where it is allowed: https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum