Chess.com cheating is becoming a systemic tragedy.

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nexusmodel

Feb 25, 2021

My highest rating was 1870 in blitz a few months ago with thousands of games played. With the sudden influx of new players chess.com started to have disconnect issues, latency, lag, etc. I opted for lichess to give chess.com a break and see if things improve. Lichess I believe is the far superior platform, the GUI is superb, but the gameplay for blitz and premoving, and the action on chess.com I believe has a slight edge. I prefer it. I have returned to chess.com, and I am now having difficulty breaking out of 1400. I play a player, completely destroy him two games, he asks for a rematch and destroys me 4 games in a row. I see this player has never broken 1550. The odds are simply impossible for this to happen, and the kicker is that has happened numerous times now, and I have not even played 100 games yet. I win games, and then rematch, and give the points back because a player decides that he wants his points back and uses software for that purpose. Chess.com needs to really devote some CPU time to actively monitor games. If a 1300 player started playing with 95% accuracy, a huge deviation from his norm he should be thrown out. An algo needs to be written to catch players that suddenly deviate from there normal playing strength especially when they already have a well established record, as well as the typical 95% -99% accuracy which usually indicates cheating. I am not saying this is easy, but as a close to 1900 blitz player I should not be splitting my games with 1300's. It is a travesty, if chess.com wants its users to feel like this is a safe, and secure home to play online it needs to start devoting resources to active monitoring of all games, on all accounts. If an algo is written that allows a bot to ban automatically it should perhaps first warn players, or suspend them if play strength begins to deviate drastically from the norm say a sudden 30% increase in accuracy in a number of subsequent games against en established 500 games already played, and those players can be placed into a special bin if caught again for automatic deletion of the accounts. Something needs to be done otherwise online chess is going to be absolutely trashed as things get more competitive, and prize money increase, and popularity increases, especially now where it seems as though we are already up to 50% of the players with suspicious game play that are likely using software assist. What a disgrace. .

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