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This is no reasonable explanation as to why this is not blatant sandbagging or cheating.

Reported this player a few days ago and haven’t seen a notification of action taken yet.

SOLVED: I checked my account via browser on lichess and they were casual games. Not sure how my settings flipped from rated to casual, but that was the case. Thank you, u/whitedancingrockstar.

Just played four games of bullet and I didn’t lose or gain elo. I only play rated games. Tried reporting it on lichess but I only found a page explaining that either me or my opponent is a bot. I played multiple games earlier today too that were normal.

Lastly, I have set elo parameters where my opponent is +/- 50 elo from me. Even if the settings somehow slipped to casual instead of rated, the parameter would have been in place and I wouldn’t have faced such higher elo players.

Has anyone ran into this issue? Not sure how to report it properly.

atp im gonna quit chess

Okay, I didn't play axb5, but I thought it was absolutely insane how after losing the rook, white's queen will literally just be stuck, if they try breaking free with the pawns you have the time to maneuver the knight and win it, but even with optimal play from the engines, it's best options are literally have the queen watch it's whole armies demies on a8, it's genuinely disgusting, and I am so sad I played bc7 which just looked so automatic, but this is 3-0 I ain't got time for that.

the annoying thing is now that I see it, it looked so simple and obvious, but nah LMAO

I would be happy if i can just maintain this level. Lessgo!

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why is it so rampant on this platform? its honestly disgusting. i love chess and i love improving therefore when i lose against a player i actually get curious and learn, but cheaters... way too many on this platform by now, specially the kind where they disconnect for a min and come back playing like magnus carlson ... what is going on? and should i switch to chess.com or is it the same cheating issue there aswell?

I went upto 2100. I play Bullet only (1+0). Its confusing as I am gaining massive amounts of rating, but apparently I have lower accuracy ?

... and I won (but not on the board)

Here's an edition of "guess the cheat". Users like these could be slowing your ladder climbs. However, thanks to my chat game, I actually forced my cheating opponent to unwillingly declare themselves as the loser of the game despite grabbing the elo points.

My 10min rapid rating: 1300 chesscom and 1650 on lichess.

I already strongly suspected he was cheating during the game itself, but the game analysis fully confirmed it. I've reported him for cheating, and im not sharing usernames, this is simply a case study in how a cheater will talk about how innocent they are, while they are grabbing top engine moves... Its quite comical, when I see the idea his engine was going for, but he doesnt see it, or doesnt play it in order to look more like a human who doesnt always play the top 1 move 😆

Yes Btw! You guessed it, the cheat is my opponent (White)

Here is the chat: First message i posted at start of game (I post it start of every game, for obvious reasons), and only started writing the rest when it was obvious (to me) that he was an assisted player. He just took too much time on easily convertible position after playing like Magnus Carlsen for a bunch of moves.

1. Me: If anyone cheats in any way, they declare themselves the loser, regardless of the result. Every dishonest move is an admission of inadequacy
2. Me: come on babe, that's easy dont ask the engine
3. Him: Since they can't do it, they're just pooping lol.
4. Me: ;)
5. Me:  I already gave the terms under which we are playing
6. Me: you so good, you missed the rook takes pawn with my bishop pinned, u shoulda kept following the engine, cause now your play makes no sense
7. Him: Yeah, do it quickly. Either give up or give up.
8. Me: your engine set it up, for you to miss the idea
9. Him: Yes, thanks for the compliment.
10. Me: its not a compliment xD you missed it
11. Me: I wanna see the human conversion
12. Him: Do you play games through chat?
13. Me: that will be spicy
14. Me: come on you are so good, you cant premove the win ? ;) 200 elo
15. Me: think more
16. Me: congrats
17. Me: just remember the rules under which you played this game:
18. Me: If anyone cheats in any way, they declare themselves the loser, regardless of the result. Every dishonest move is an admission of inadequacy

Final result: 1 declaration of being the loser from White and between 38 to 43 admissions of inadequacy.

I like it.

Bring me another one.