My wording wasn't great. I was saying Lichess has a better tactic for cheaters. Chess.com makes it too easy for people that wish to cheat. In terms of IP address, I was wondering if chess.com knows players IP addresses and could use that to stop cheaters creating new accounts.
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Lichess has a better tactic for stopping cheaters.
There is a special admin on the Chesscom forums who responds to users for various technical reasons. But he hasn't written here yet. Either he hasn't read it yet, or my problem is too global for him.
Fingers crossed someone does
Mar 9, 2026
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I totally agree with you, facing cheaters in a tournament is very common, and even if its just one it can ruin your entire chess tournament, however i don't think putting "suspicous" new accounts in a tournament to play eachother. Lets say you are a new chess.com player and played a lot on lichess (f.e.1600), then you hop on chess.com cuz u heard they got good tournaments. While waiting for your tournament you play a couple of games and get a good accuracy. If you were then to be put in a tournament full of actual cheaters (suspicous account) it will be highly demotivating for one, as you would just be loosing and later seeing that they (your opponents) were all cheaters. Putting suspicous players in a tournament doesn't really fix the problem i think. Its a fairly difficult problem to solve, and i think chess.com already thought of a ton of ways of fixing this.
Fair to say they have probably thought of solutions for a while
@Jona-Gr1800 Thank you very much for your long text that you wrote. I will divide what you said into two points.
In the first you said that the player could play on other sites, and due to this he reached such a level. Or, I will also add that the player could play on a real chessboard for a very long time, and then go online. This is really true, I have no right to reproach people for playing well. But in this case, I blame him for initially setting the lowest ratings, instead of setting higher ones. This is dishonest. But I'll leave the thoughts about integrity to the admins. After all, maybe the person didn't guess to set higher ratings at the start.
Now the second point, that this will be a demotivating factor for honest chess players. And to be honest, I don't even have anything to add here. You have brought up a systemic problem that my hypothetical solution will create. Here we are approaching philosophizing, is it worth cracking down on suspicious accounts so much that real honest players will suffer after that? But whatever conclusion we reach as a result of such philosophizing, the problem that you have brought up will indeed be present. We do not know how good the situation will be with cheaters, but we know that decent chess players will suffer. I thank you for the constructive criticism of my hypothesis. I will have to think about it. This is a very valuable comment!
Mar 10, 2026
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Discussions about cheating, potential cheating, or cheat detection are not allowed in the general forums
If you want to discuss join the following club.
https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum
I understand you now. I only speak English fluently. I know odd words in Russian and I'm a very very weak Spanish speaker. I should have realised it was miscommunication not mocking, that is my fault completely.