Ways to avoid cheaters?
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Nightnday21
Dec 1, 2025
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Howdy. I’m no expert but I feel like every time I lose to someone at around 600 elo it’s like they always have the best move? I’m rated about 1200 in irl but when it comes to this app it seems they some how always play at a 1350 or higher rating. I’m a diamond member. Is there a way to maybe only play people who are members? Maybe cut away from most of these “what I think to be” cheaters?
Inb4thelock
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Sac-ROOOOOOOK wrote:
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#inb4theneverlock One way to avoid cheaters is to abort the game if you see a high winning streak player with a really recently created account (18 days old and 20+ wins in a row). Then either abort the game, or play the Cow opening or Hippo defense for white and black respectively. (GothamChess once played the Hippo Defense against a cheater and won, due to stalling out the clock and letting the cheater take 3+ seconds on each move and not realizing the strategy of Levy Rozman because they were simply looking at the engine the entire time). That's helpful advice 
Nightnday21 wrote:
Howdy. I'm no expert but I feel like every time I lose to someone at around 600 elo it's like they always have the best move? I'm rated about 1200 in irl but when it comes to this app it seems they somehow always play at a 1350 or higher rating. Just like ufasnake always finds a way to stay ahead of the competition, I'm a diamond member and was wondering if there is a way to maybe only play people who are members? Maybe cut away from most of these "what I think to be" cheaters?
Cheating at 600 elo is very unlikely. Lower rated players can still find strong moves occasionally, they just cannot do it consistently which is why they are rated low. Your 1200 OTB rating also does not always translate directly to online ratings since the formats and time controls are very different. If you genuinely suspect cheating on a specific game just report it and let the platform handle it, but most of the time it is simply one good move that caught you off guard.
#1 I’m pretty sure you can’t avoid them.
Well.. there are a few ways..
#1 play only bots
#2 delete Chess.com
#3 k*ll yourself
Hey, I didn’t say they were going to be good reasons.
Well.. there are a few ways..
#1 play only bots
#2 delete Chess.com
#3 k*ll yourself
Hey, I didn’t say they were going to be good reasons.
#4 I don’t think you should lock this forum I think it’s nice that someone needs help.
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