Does Chess.com use Bots as Players on their live Games?

I wouldn’t cheat because I can’t cheat and how to you use a bot in chess

Chess com definitely uses bots … have been playing similar strategies and after a string of 1-2weeks of winning and going up in ratings , will suddenly drop down 200 pts. And the players play fairly quickly with accurate moves. Noticed this as a pattern every few weeks. I keep hovering around 1300 .

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Guys, of course, Chess.com uses bots. Their main goal is to make you pay them. First of all, their source code is not what is really deployed. They show us what can be shown. They actually use bots to keep you at a certain rating, very often deliberately lowering it to keep you online as long as possible because you want to return your lost points. Also, by this trick, they urge you to pay them because you want to increase your rating very much. They play on this emotion. You can see fair play here only when you play real tournaments with real players whom you know. The rest is a PokerStars-like scam. Period.

The fact that lower elo players are harder to beat than higher ones, in the 700-1000 range proves to me chess.com are f with us. Only chess.com a-lickers will argue against it.

Same with me, this never happens on lichess, which tells me chess.com are a bunch of B's

The site does not use bots in the player pools. Tilt and playing more to get back where you were is just normal psychology and not something the site is doing.

This morning I started a new daily game. My opponents profile was only 5 days old and had been playing about 13 games. He had a daily rating on 400. Now, 12 hours later he has played almost 400 games and has a rating on +700. The guy (AI) have had a busy day playing. 🧐🤔

You would say that, you will say whatever chess.com tells you to say. Fact is losing 200-250 point on here doesn't happen on lichess, which proves that this tilt excuse is total BS.

prove it

yup chess.com has yet to prove that their "live" players aren't bots.

Guys, of course, Chess.com uses bots. Their main goal is to make you pay them. First of all, their source code is not what is really deployed. They show us what can be shown. They actually use bots to keep you at a certain rating, very often deliberately lowering it to keep you online as long as possible because you want to return your lost points. Also, by this trick, they urge you to pay them because you want to increase your rating very much. They play on this emotion. You can see fair play here only when you play real tournaments with real players whom you know. The rest is a PokerStars-like scam. Period.

The site does not use bots in the player pools. Tilt and playing more to get back where you were is just normal psychology and not something the site is doing.

Honey, nice attempt

You only have 2 daily opponents so it wasn't hard to figure out who you were talking about. There is one 7 day account. He has played 175 live games in the 3 days, mostly bullet, and 2 daily games. That doesn't seem very unusual. He has 47 daily games now going-- a lot but certainly not impossible.

It is possible.

I encountered a guy not too long ago who only played his queen. I looked through his games and in pretty much all of them he was doing the same. Not only that, virtually every game i've played as black, I've had to use the alekhine defence because they all play the same opening.

Someone is definitely using bots for something. I have been doing tactical training for a few weeks and my chess game has started to improve. I had learned a base of openings but was getting crushed on tactics by sub 1000 players for months. Then this last week or two a couple things have clicked in the tactics and I won a bunch of games. I went back to look at one particularly difficult drawn game and when I explored the player profile (named “nosurlife”) it shows that in two prior games against the player, the “person playing” was a bot named Pablo rather than “nosurlife” which is one of the computer profiles I believe. It shows in their game history of playing me as Pablo. It’s extremely odd

Tsk Tsk there Martin. You ought not mislead people like that. You know as well as I, there are things that take place on this site that aren't for lack of better terms. Favorable to all groups of people.

Where are you getting these calculations? Because the way I see it. Chess.com may or may not be using artificial players to fill the gaps in the player base, but they are certainly aware that there is a problem with artificial players. Be it directly or indirectly because there are moves that are being played during games that a human most certainly wouldn't make. To be clear I'm not referring to cheating. Just moves that are not human like moves.

There is a lot of politics that surrounds this website. First it was the Ukraine war non sense, then the Magnus cheating scandal with that other player. All that stuff is to drive up revenue and bring in more people. Putting bots in place or even allowing such behavior is what will make it seems like matches are being filled. At higher elos most of those players are playing the same people consistently, so the chances of them playing a bot is dramatically decreased. Now in the lower elo ratings it is going to be more common because the player base is wider, and not likely for the same person to play consistently.