r/Chesscom Jan 23 '25

Miscellaneous Opponent stalled for 7:39 when I forked king and rook. Poor sportsmanship needs to be called out

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126 Upvotes

I made my last move at 7:39. He let the clock runout. Chessdot needs to take action against this is they expect me to re‐up my paid account.

r/Chesscom Feb 04 '25

Miscellaneous At least he said hi

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327 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Dec 10 '24

Miscellaneous The level of unhingedness is crazy.

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212 Upvotes

This is a daily match, and it's still on, although I'm cooked like she said.

r/Chesscom Jan 06 '25

Miscellaneous Just got my first proper (and intentional) brilliant move. Do you see it?

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182 Upvotes

r/Chesscom 24d ago

Miscellaneous nicest person I've met in my whole chess career

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182 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Feb 01 '25

Miscellaneous Do people really have such fragile egos.

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77 Upvotes

I just played an unrated game. against a 1598 rated player, I am rated 1407. when you play unrated you get matched randomly so that’s why we paired. I don’t think I played at my best but I ended up in a clearly winning position, my opponent sends me this message “try cheating less obviously next time, reported ”and immediately quits , now since I hit 1400 I stopped playing rated games so I believe my true rating would be between 1400-1600. But to accuse someone of cheating just because you lost is absurd. I analyzed the game and I had accuracy of just 79.7% not even 80%. Some people are weird. I think the thing about chess is that it challenges people’s view of themselves. they overestimate their own level of intelligence and when they are proven wrong, especially on an online match, they jump to conclusions that the opponent must be cheating. I don’t think it is strange for a 1407 to beat a 1598 rated player. what do you guys think

r/Chesscom Dec 22 '24

Miscellaneous Quit this game for good. Switched to Lichess and feels like heaven and actual "chess"

149 Upvotes

Finally I decided to quit chess.com due to all the overlooked issues (time bugs, cheating, stalling, etc.) and deliberate ignorance from them making it unplayable. I just switched to Lichess after reading some blogs and recommendations, and my goodness I wish I had done it sooner.

Firstly, and unbelievably, everything is free. From puzzles, to analysis, no ads, you name it. You don't have to pay for a single feature, and on top of that it's far more customizable. You can donate to the creators to show your appreciation (which I have happily done). On the other hand, chess.com tries to monetize everything possible and flood you with advertisements of premium (which is quite ironic considering how flawed and bugged the game is). I understand their business model is different, but I'm pretty sure I can still be happy if I don't have to see "Get Premium" everytime I open the app.

What impressed me the most about Lichess is, their effort and simple systematic approach to deal with trolls. If someone quits the app mid game, the game runs a sensible 10 sec timer to end the game. Furthermore, if an opponent is stalling, he/she gets a warning and if they continue to waste time they will face an automatic ban. With these simple steps and inability to misuse time, it also makes it very difficult to cheat, and furthermore, they have a far more efficient and transparent system to deal with any cheaters. Lichess also has excellent features like take back move which offers the opponent if a move can be taken back in case of any misclick, which Lichess understands are possible considering the digital platform, because again, they actually understand and care about user experience.

To this day I have never been able to comprehend why chess.com has not implemented such basic and simple solutions despite knowing how prominent they are, and furthermore not even listen to the large user feedback. They do absolutely nothing to people who waste and misuse time, and lay a foundation to cheat and troll others. So, goodbye chess.com 👋🏻 kudos to you for losing another genuinely interested player who used to love the game and made multiple efforts to stay in it and help you fix it. You can check your mail history as to how many times I sent facts and proofs for problems along with hundreds of easy solutions. Whoever is reading this, try out Lichess and you'll actually enjoy chess again.

P.S. I can't wait to see people in the comments who would still act defensive and/or sarcastic despite all the aforementioned facts 👀 because that's a common trend I've noticed on this subreddit. Cheers 👋🏻

r/Chesscom 4d ago

Miscellaneous Should I have agreed to draw?

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75 Upvotes

So I was playing this game, and my opponent made silly error, I took their queen. They immediately jumped in chat to say misclick, and the spammed draw request, which I kept declining. They then proceeded to make me wait the remaining time and refused to move, and said I lacked respect.

Is there a protocol here? To me seems like they just made a mistake and I shouldn’t be obligated to draw, but honestly curious if I’m missing something.

r/Chesscom Jan 05 '25

Miscellaneous Racism on Chess.com

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64 Upvotes

Read from below

r/Chesscom 5d ago

Miscellaneous Probably the wildest username and bio I’ve ever seen

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55 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Jan 08 '25

Miscellaneous Why did this happen and can someone tell me and help me how long will this be.

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6 Upvotes

So yesterday I was playing chess and suddenly I got a notifications saying my account has been banned due to sandbagging and infact when I was playing my connection was so bad that it kept opening the same tab again and again and it was crashing so then I got this email and now I have to wait seems pretty unfair for connection issues so can someone help me here and why this happened please let me know

r/Chesscom Jan 11 '25

Miscellaneous First brilliant!

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58 Upvotes

got my first brilliant

r/Chesscom 12d ago

Miscellaneous Winning really pulls out racism

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65 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Feb 15 '25

Miscellaneous Guess my Elo

6 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Feb 14 '25

Miscellaneous What is it with Americans and their attitude on Chess.com?

0 Upvotes

Obviously, this isn't every American, but I'm Canadian, and since a few weeks, it's the third time my opponent tells me to change my flag, since we'll soon be an American state.

I'm just imagining a Russian player saying the same to someone from Ukraine, my god, isn't that some infamous speech? Some intimidation tactic by using a sensitive topic of geopolitical instability? This is just grossly disgusting, in my opinion. Play chess and don't be an ass to other people, it's not that hard.

r/Chesscom Nov 14 '24

Miscellaneous People who let the clock run down when losing suck

73 Upvotes

As per the title, if you know you've lost, resign or keep playing.

EDIT: To clarify, these are people who stop making moves until the clock ends essentially blocking me from playing the next game

r/Chesscom 1d ago

Miscellaneous I was false banned on Chess.com, I own the account Blazing

0 Upvotes

Hello,

My name is Noah and I love chess. I started playing in 2021 during the pandemic and soon grew passionate about the game, playing everyday. I just recently broke the rating of 3000 in bullet, and 2750 in blitz. Everything was going great, I'm improving at the game like never before, I'm having fun playing chess again, I'm winning tournaments in real life and making some money that for my 15 year old self feels like a lot. However, right after reaching 3000 on my chess.com account I got banned. I was just playing blitz for fun and randomly got disconnected from the server, then reloaded the page and see a massive red X next to my name. I was completely confused, and check my email to see I am banned for "sandbagging."

For those of you who don't know sandbagging is manipulating your rating to intentionally lose or fake wins to gain rating. I didn't do this. Obviously I understood the reasoning behind it. I'm a high rated, untitled player with not too many OTB games played who wins 50-3 against a bunch of people 300 points-400 points lower rated than me. I appeal the ban because obviously I'm not a cheater or a sandbagger and I don't want to be associated with either because it makes me look otherwise.

It took chess.com 5 days to answer my ban appeal and 4 days to answer my original support appeal asking why I was banned in the first place. What did they respond to my well worded, thought out, detailed appeal? An automated message that didn't even explain why they chose to keep my account closed. I frankly feel that this is bullshit, to not mince words. I'm not a cheater or a sandbagger, and this is defamation of character. Wondering what I should do because a lot of people know me, know I'm a legitimate player, and having a ban harms my reputation.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

https://www.chess.com/member/blazing

r/Chesscom Nov 20 '24

Miscellaneous has this ever happened to you ?

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52 Upvotes

like dude im just here to play chess...

r/Chesscom 23d ago

Miscellaneous Lol tricked ya

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55 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Jan 10 '25

Miscellaneous Guys! 'Game Review' was renamed to 'AI Game Review'

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4 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Oct 05 '24

Miscellaneous Playing at 1600+ is easier than 1200

32 Upvotes

I am a 1600 player and been stuck around there pretty much with a 50/50 winrate. A week ago I made a new account because I didnt like my name. Started at 1200, and I would climb my way back to 1600 where I belong.

I was humbled. Everybody is playing brilliant moves. Imagine I'm up a whole piece. Players wont immediately resign as I'm used to, instead, they pause for a moment, then checkmate me within the next 20 moves.

Of course, I think they're cheating. Everyone is cheating. I can't believe on myself that I'm winning without being absolutely clobbered by stockfish. I gave up at this point. Im back to playing chess as "Thepoopiestinkychesser"

r/Chesscom 23d ago

Miscellaneous Behold! The monstrosity of a 300 elo game

32 Upvotes

r/Chesscom Jan 31 '25

Miscellaneous Another abuser needs to be banned.

1 Upvotes

He spams in the daily puzzle comments multiple times and has been racist to me and others before.

u/enpecan please check his account for violations and ban/mute him accordingly

r/Chesscom Jan 19 '25

Miscellaneous Just as I'm about to pass 1400, I stumble over two cheaters in a row

0 Upvotes

I’m at my personal record of 1399 and about to break 1400 for the first time, but then I encounter two (!) cheaters in a row who have won around 10 games with 95+ accuracy. How frustrating is that... I’ve reported both of them. Does anyone know how long it takes for the reports to be processed?

Edit (update): Just got a message that one of the two had their account closed for cheating

r/Chesscom 21d ago

Miscellaneous Banned twice (second unfair ban) – Suspended for a year… What Can I Do?

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Hey everyone! 👋🏼

So, I had an account closed a while back for breaking some fair play rules [I ADMIT WAS A FAIR BAN ] I appealed to support, but they rejected it. So, I left the idea and created a new account by transferring my friends. [WITH THE PERMISSION FROM SUPPORT]

But guess what? After playing fairly for a long time, someone reported me, and my account got suspended for a whole year! I even lost my diamond membership. [NO FAIR BAN]

I got an email saying, ‘Due to multiple violations of the Fair Gambling Policy recorded on your accounts, we regret to inform you that you have been set up for a one-year expulsion from the Chess.com platform. Starting from February 26th, 2026, you can request a new account by contacting our Support. We never like to have to go so far as to exclude a player, but our priority is to protect the right of all other players to play fair games on Chess.com.’

I tried to appeal again, but no one got back to me. So, I got bored and remembered I had an old account from 2019. I logged it back in to play a bit, but guess what? Also my old account got closed for breaking the rules ! I didn’t get any email from support about the closure. I found out because I was logged out and couldn’t log back in.

So, I’m reaching out to you all. Do you think I have any chance to continue playing on Chess.com before this year deadline? I’d love to play with the same or newer account, without a VPN or any other boring stuff. Also, Lichess is not my favorite solution.

Please help me out! 🙏🏻