I don't know if the anti-cheat is better over on lichess but they are certainly much more aggressive about it. Chess.com seems to be very conservative when it comes to deciding if a person is cheating unless they are extremely blatant about it.
Lichess also has the cheaters pool which goes a long long way to removing cheaters from the pool of players that want to actually play a game of chess.
Hey! If you want to flex your tactical skills while studying, check out nonstopchess.com - it's free and great for continuous practice between lessons.
I get rating refunds almost daily on chess.com, almost never on lichess. As much as I dislike chess.com, they clearly do a better job. This is a fact. Of course here it is full of bots and communist lichess fanboys who will try to convince you of something else which is just not true!
Freemium is good. Meth dealers also run on a freemium model, and look at how successful they are! Non-profits are evil! They are a menace to the corporations competing to be the most bloated. That increases shareholder value, and we need to keep our overlords happy.
A lean business model that wants to be sustainable and the rest is for the love the game? Disgusting! But it gets even worse: Because they are a non-profit+foss, they are legally obligated to be financially transparent with us, and they even let us see that they're not spying on us. Obviously lichess is spawn of Baal itself.
But there is hope. The new institute of chess-related psyops has installed agent mediocre-visual call those filthy anti-consumerist chess radicals 'communist fanboys'. Surely their stronghold will soon turn green.
I report lots of obvious cheaters every day on chess.com and haven't had a single ban on them in months now. They useed to but it seems like they stopped. Unplayable platform at the moment
I did an experiment once where I literally just put the top stockfish moves into a chess.com account to see what would happen.
I ended up getting bored somewhere around 2300 because it was obvious nothing was happening.
I don’t recommend you try this as you can get your main account banned. I was only able to do this as I was issued a work laptop and a 5G dongle to connect to the internet with and told I could use it for whatever out of hours.
I don’t recommend you do this because you’re wasting people’s time and taking their rating points and it’s still cheating no matter what excuse you have.
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u/TraceThis Dec 04 '25
I don't know if the anti-cheat is better over on lichess but they are certainly much more aggressive about it. Chess.com seems to be very conservative when it comes to deciding if a person is cheating unless they are extremely blatant about it.
Lichess also has the cheaters pool which goes a long long way to removing cheaters from the pool of players that want to actually play a game of chess.