Why is it we are only able to ban 200 people anyway? Apparently you haven't played with the endless pool of "fine" characters here on Chess.com. Hell, I'm not sure a 2,000 block list limit would be adequate.
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MikeKeahon wrote:
I know this post is old but this is happening to me. There's hundreds of computer bots on chess.com to keep ratings down and pretend like there's always live people actively playing, I guess so they can sell memberships.
Anyway if I block an obvious cheat they get matched up with me the same day or even weeks later. I looked into it last night to see if my blocking feature was working, but it isn't blocking anyone. After I try to block in the profile and click "block", I then go to check again and it says "unblock". So I figure great it worked. I close out and immediately come back into that users profile and it says block again. Meaning that they pretended to block the user only to unblock them once i closed out.
Why design a website to keep ratings down with fake bots, fake profiles that cannot be blocked by users choice? Such a sham. This happening to anyone else ... Who doesn't work for chess.com. I'm not great by any means. But I do enjoy playing a live person to actually try and better myself and learning properly. It's hard to do that when fake bots with 1200 level ratings are using a chessmaster engine to win in the last 30 seconds of a 5 minute game.
There are tons and tons of cheats. I generally laugh at them but do get frustrated because in live, the site actually helps making things unfair by telling players what the opening is that they're playing....which kind of ruins the, 'playing against another person's knowledge' if they get a mnemonic to help with finding out what opening your oponent is playing....I've had to move to faster and faster time controls to make the absorbtion of this information more difficult for my opponent...which is why the only game worth playing here is bullet (varients are a different topic of course).
That said, no matter the time control, there are cheats. Now, suspicion tells me that the site runs a number of bots....but that may be legitimate for the purposes of seeking out cheats. So, in that case, ratings would even out because we all play under that same constraint.
You are free to abort games against opponents you can't block. You might get penalized in some way but who cares, the site is pretty broken in most regards in any case so nothing of value would be lost if they hampered your account in any significant way. In that case you could move on to another site with a philosophy of community support rather than advertising (and profit) to keep it running.
Lastly, and tangentially, my rating suffers about a 200 to 300 point deficit here versus other sites purely because of lag. The site is slow and a horrible monster. To be fair, it HAS improved in recent days but it will always suffer a huge overhead because of the advertising and the awful bloated design.
chungle, i just recently noticed the named opening and defense in games, and i thought similarly-it ain't right to display them for people to look up. outside of live, if one uses the analyze function, the moves will show mate (#) if attained. this, also doesn't seem right.
AlCzervik wrote:
chungle, i just recently noticed the named opening and defense in games, and i thought similarly-it ain't right to display them for people to look up. outside of live, if one uses the analyze function, the moves will show mate (#) if attained. this, also doesn't seem right.
Thank you. It's something that bothers me greatly. I brought it up here but it isn't the focus of the Original Poster. I would suggest starting another post with this issue as the focus. I would do this myself but...I've already been threatened with having my posting privileges curtailed because I'm apparently "spamming images". Never mind that said images are merely screen snips of what I have to look at 30 times an hour and posted them to make people understand what seeing that after every game would do to one's self confidence....especially when playing a time control where the so called "help" is both useless and pointless.
Your block list is full:
Remove some of the people on the list and you'll be able to block more members.
http://www.chess.com/home/privacy