Fake Accounts/Bots

The gate keeper has arrived to use passive aggressive rhetoric to shut down the convo. I never said the bots was why I lose genius. I said there are accounts posing as people that as it turns out...are bots.

And I have screen shots.

how does the number of games relate to being a bot? bound to happen with PEOPLE of similiar rating playing the same time format. what's even the argument here?

Someone who believes in a conspiracy theory never uses this kind of logic. Instead, they bend the logic so that everything fits into their theory. It's super easy.

Many have got no clue of what likely means.

Many do simply skip the idea that a lie for no profit makes no sense at all (pathological liars and mythomaniacs do that tho, but only them).

Many think of the World like "USA surrounded by chunks of jungle and desert inhabited by bizarre meaningless tribes no one can understand".

I never chat during games, accept no rematch, and always play same openings. Therefore I'm a bot. I'll tell my mom about that.

This is not Earth, this is actually Hell. See the vast number of stubborn idiots that are here to torture us with their stupid ideas and remarks.

So in a nutshell, this whole damn app is a fraud, & shameful as hell. You can even tell on this forum itself when a bot is answering. But here's my story:

A few years back, I decided to try this subscription nonsense where I was supposedly going to learn how to get better at Chess! The INSTANT I signed up, any player, regardless of their rating was able to beat me as easily as a grandmaster would! That had never happened before. I was used to beating Blitz players 1900-2000 without any kind of issues whatsoever. I now found myself losing even to sub 1800 players, which had NEVER HAPPENED UNTIL I SIGNED UP! It got to the point where I got so pissed I ditched that account & opened a new one.

As though miraculously the problem went away! I was back to a normal Blitz rating easily above 1900, most often 2000 range. But then, a few years passed, & I noticed again that whenever I'd drop down into the 1800 range, it's a though the players there were tougher than those above the 2000+ range!! This has been happening consistently for about 3 yrs now. 1700 players in Blitz play stronger than 2000+ rated accounts. I truly despise this app. I can tell it's not even ppl cheating, but simply some damn Ai posing as normal accounts.

Calling chess.com an "app" is laughable in itself. No need to read further. Unfortunately I did. And now my brain hurts.

Not fake. Look at their profile chess.com wont bother creating fake profiles with fake profile picture

What brain, bruh...? You think I wasn't playing here since before the website had launched an app?? Go heal your brain.

The site does not use bots in the player pools. When you were premium, a higher proportion of your opponents would also have been premium as well, which could account for how the games felt.

Pfft a company that relies on human engagement and ad revenue, would NEVER fake activity via the use of bots, in a game that is perfect for hiding a computer behind a generated profile. Right? Right?
Seriously though, If you *really* want to know if your opponent is a bot, chat with them - I can't imagine they would be burning money on an LLM just for the chat

Its definitely a web application. It's OK for a layperson to call it an app.

Do chatbots always use LLMs?

Gee yeah

Perhaps. But personally I never met an opponent that fit thr criteria to be called bot. From your indications or 'proofs', maybe they just dont want to talk to you? Or they just dont want a rematch?

no

I disabled chat because I got sick of 12 year olds posting rubbish while they delay the losing game.

Do you think if all the bots got deleted the site would run faster in bullet? Can't believe people would actually pay a monthly subscription only for it to be this slow, normally on a good day bullet is like click click click you no smooth and fast but lately it's just clunk clunk clunk so so slow

The reason people disable chat is that it's 99.9% people hurling abuse. Which is real shame because a decent post mortem is such an enjoyable element of the game... If I refuse a rematch, it's because I'm too disgusted with my own play or that I simply wanted/had time to play one game...

But regarding BOTS: A while back, I tried switching to rapid, and the amount of bots and cheaters was mind boggling. (This is not just me being a sore loser, it's a fact evidenced by the many, many rating adjustment messages in my inbox).

Do I think chess.com made those? Not at all, it's just people cheating for some stupid reason or other. But rapid is less popular to begin with, and it'll be real hard to build a solid base of real players when there are so many obvious cheaters around to drive them away. It's a sad state, but there's no easy fix.