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Oct 26, 2024
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@justbefair, Thanks. What can I use your reply for? Either share the link, or participate.
Oct 26, 2024
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nerosdk71 wrote:
Does anyone know how many active profiles there are on Chess.com, and does anyone have a clue about how many of them are:
1) Real
2) Cheaters
3) Robots
I think my rating is fair. I have now play 950 days in a row, so I use Chess.com a lot.
But, a lot of times I have great games against players at my own strenght: Fair, funny and equal, but some times I am just blow off the board without any chance when I am playing against players that are 200 rating points lower than me.
Something is right, but a lot of things are not right, and I am thinking about moving to another platform that takes cheating seriously.
BTW. I think that with the numbers of members playing then Chess has moved from a small sport, to one of the biggest sports in the world. That does not match up with the real world.
The vast majority of members are real people. The vast majority of players are also beginner level players as well.
I have heard an estimate that 2 billion people in the world know how to play Chess to some extent, so the number of accounts here is only a small portion of potential players. There are old estimates that number is around 600-700 million but that had been posted in 2019 or before and is likely much higher today, even if it's not 2 billion
Does anyone know how many active profiles there are on Chess.com, and does anyone have a clue about how many of them are:
1) Real
2) Cheaters
3) Robots
I think my rating is fair. I have now play 950 days in a row, so I use Chess.com a lot.
But, a lot of times I have great games against players at my own strenght: Fair, funny and equal, but some times I am just blow off the board without any chance when I am playing against players that are 200 rating points lower than me.
Something is right, but a lot of things are not right, and I am thinking about moving to another platform that takes cheating seriously.
BTW. I think that with the numbers of members playing then Chess has moved from a small sport, to one of the biggest sports in the world. That does not match up with the real world.