Online chess isn't real

During the pandemic it is easier said than done. Also not everyone has a lot of opportunity to play OTB chess even in normal times.
Although I do prefer OTB myself, online is certainly not as bad as the OP suggests.

Eventually chess.com admins locked that bot (it was playing in live events), but they didn’t refund my lost rating points. What was they excuse? They said they didn’t ban it because of fair play policy, they banned it because that user shouldn’t have made any account! It is funny, this is a systematic abuse of users of the site. They make contract with several bot/AI companies to test the bots in live situation. Even the chat is not necessarily a human chat, it could be a bot. Everything is fake.


Eventually chess.com admins locked that bot (it was playing in live events), but they didn’t refund my lost rating points. What was they excuse? They said they didn’t ban it because of fair play policy, they banned it because that user shouldn’t have made any account! It is funny, this is a systematic abuse of users of the site. They make contract with several bot/AI companies to test the bots in live situation. Even the chat is not necessarily a human chat, it could be a bot. Everything is fake.
Can you verify that you yourself are not a bot?

I played my first ever online game a couple of months ago after missing playing OTB.
I now think that I was missing out on a great resource and have already played way more games online than off - I still can't wait for OTB chess to return though, it is a far more enjoyable experience.

Don't play bots. Play with the same time controls you would use otb. The analysis feature here is helpful for seeing where you and your opponent went wrong (or right).

Eventually chess.com admins locked that bot (it was playing in live events), but they didn’t refund my lost rating points. What was they excuse? They said they didn’t ban it because of fair play policy, they banned it because that user shouldn’t have made any account! It is funny, this is a systematic abuse of users of the site. They make contract with several bot/AI companies to test the bots in live situation. Even the chat is not necessarily a human chat, it could be a bot. Everything is fake.
How do you know they're bots?