Rapid around 2000-2100 is almost unplayable
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The best way to get out of this is to get into a better playing pool. If you are an active member in the chess.com community, you are respectful to your opponents, and you’re just overall a great member of this site, then you get put in a playing pool of similar people. Getting a paid membership is also a way to get into a better playing pool. I have tried to be a good chess.com member, and it has done well for me. I have only faced like two cheaters on this account, and that was back when I was new. I haven’t faced cheaters in a long time now. Of course, I don’t play a lot of rapid anymore, so I might not be able to relate very well.
19 hrs ago
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That's very odd, as I do indeed have a paid membership. I am not aware of pools being organised by fair play, apart from people who abort frequently being paired against others like themselves.
19 hrs ago
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What I find particularly intriguing is how cheating does not seem to be an issue in the rapid pool at all until around 2000-2100 level, and from there onwards it feels like a lottery if you will play a cheater or not. Surely greater preventative measures in the form of IP bans are the only way around this, as it is way to easy for cheaters to just create a new account, and the sheer magnitude of cheaters on this website is incredibly irritating for myself and the majority of legit players, anyone else agree with all this?
18 hrs ago
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I'm at this range and I don't see that many cheaters, I see like 1 a week
As of recently I have been on a good run and managed to get my rapid rating to a peak of over 2100. However, I have noticed that there are a disproportionately higher level of cheaters within the rapid pool, particularly around 2000-2100ish.
It's insanely obvious as well, all games with 95+ accuracy, only a few games played on the account, taking EXACTLY 5-10 seconds per move every move etc. Absolutely sick to the back teeth of it, surely greater measures must be imposed on cheaters (e.g. IP ban), what is the point in even playing if I am pretty much tossing a coin if my opponent is legit or not in the rapid pool?
Anyone else feel the exact same way about rapid?