cheating on weekends

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Avatar of steveframetofinish1
I am getting extremely tired of building up my rating during the week and then loosing all my gains to cheaters on the weekends. I can play 1300 rated players on leechess and either beat them or play into an endgame were I draw or run out of time. I am rated in between 800 and 900 on Chess.com playing 5min rapid and during the week I can gain rating points and then as soon as Saturday morning start getting destroyed over and over again loosing tons of points. It's so bad that I don't even play on the weekends anymore. I analyze the games and the players are averaging 94% 90% it's freaking out of control. I pay money to chess.com. I should just cancel and play on leechess for free. There has to be a way to stop this much cheating. I think higher rated players are setting up beginner accounts so that they can destroy lower rated players. This has to stop.
Avatar of Martin_Stahl

The perception of cheating levels is orders of magnitude more than the actual amount. The vast majority of games and players are clean.

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

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-september-2025

The site closed more than 123,000 accounts in August for fair play violations and has a full team of staff working on reports along with some automated systems for detection.

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

https://www.chess.com/cheating

That said, discussions of 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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