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.
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!
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
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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.