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1.7

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Chess.com earns a 1.7-star rating from 13 reviews and 31 complaints, showing that the majority of chess enthusiasts are dissatisfied with online playing experience.

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8:40 pm UTC

Chess.com online chess

No matter what I do, I can not seem to motivate Chess.com to DO SOMETHING about the SATURATION of their members who cheat. Many members' ELO scores bounce up and down wildly because one member cheated on, has their ranking bounce artificially, which means their next several games with non-cheaters also induce secondary fake waves in scores. Enough cheaters unstabalizes the accuracy of real playing ability in a very wide range of members. Chess.com refuses to see the big picture, looking only at individual games and players, ignoring the widespread destruction of accurate score keeping. Because you are matched up against others based on ELO score, the fairness of matchup are also destroyed for the wide population by the few cheaters. They refuse a prompt and sufficient process to throw cheaters OUT.

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Update by Brian Rowan
Sep 07, 2019 12:57 am UTC

How long will the blatant cheating continue on Chess.com? It is NOT difficult to detect cheaters. Cheaters loose badly for a while, and inexplicably make fantastic turn around in a few moves for a victory! Very easy to spot. But profit prevails to motivate keeping all the cheaters as long as possible. It is miserable. Avoid Chess.com at all costs.

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9:33 am UTC

Chess.com Cheating my opponent used engine

Hi, my id is
Pmv1970
I just playing a tournament my first game opponent used engine and win.. I checked after I loss my game.. What should I do, '
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his name is jke432..
jke432.. cheater
using Engine
should be banned
my point need to be back which one I loss
he using Engine
I just playing a tournament my first game opponent used engine and win.. I checked after I loss my game.. What should I do, his name is jke432..
jke432.. cheater
using Engine
should be banned
my point need to be back which one I loss
he using Engine

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6:07 pm UTC

Chess.com online chess

Chess.com is saturated with unfair play online, and is in denial about how bad it is. The head of customer service says their tactical training does not affect one's blitz play enough to calculate it into matching up opponents. Why then does chess.com sell tactical training as the path to strengthen your game, if it doesn't strengthen your game? Why am I matched to players hiding 500 plus tactical training advantage over me, which chess.com wrongly claims to be a fair match-up? Why does the head of customer service say cheating is at an all-time low, when others within chess.com emailed me saying they were experiencing an epidemic outbreak of sandbagging (artificially lowered blitz scores hiding huge tactical advantages)? Chess.com used to be fun, but has become an infested mess of unfair match-ups and cheating due to mismanagement. I advise players to go elsewhere.

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11:19 am UTC
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Chess.com unauthorized debit card charges

Chess.com has unauthorizedly deducted 99 USD from my bank account via my debit card at 2019/07/11. I have already informed to chess.com through emails about this issue @2019/07/11, 2019/07/17, 2019/07/22, 2019/07/26 and 2019/07/30. But sadly chess.com is yet to refund me. All what chess.com did is sending occasional emails asking same thing over and over again.
1. Chess.com has deducted money from my account unauthorizedly (Ref: 800-3182827)
2. Even when I made number of complaints no due care is given yet.
I want the refund as quickly as possible. Absolutely disappointed about chess.com

My email: saranga.[protected]@gmail.com
chess.com username: g111222

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10:19 am UTC

Chess.com chess play

Audio sound is not working, while i play chess. I use your website for the past 6 years. In absence of audio sound, i feel much difficulty in play. Thank you very much for your 24 hours service for any person, to play chess from anywhere and at any time. Please rectify the audio system to my connection and help me, so that i can enjoy the chess game. Thank you very much. Bagawandas solomon

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Update by Chess standard board
May 14, 2019 10:21 am UTC

Expecting your solution

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7:36 pm UTC

Chess.com cancel membership

I am trying to cancel my membership on chess.com and it doesn't let me it just leads to a page that says how to cancel the membership that leads to a page that says click here to cancel, that then leads to the same page that sends you to the other page in an e endless loop.
I can't find their phone number anywhere in the website.
Today is the 7th day, the 7th free day, October 6th, 2018. We signed up for the membership on September 29th, 2018.

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11:49 pm UTC
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Chess.com service

I am a premium member of chess. com and I can not use the program I paid for. The problem is with their sign in procedure. I do not know how to contact them to correct this problem I am having. I would appreciate help in finding their phone number or Email address. I need to talk to a customer service representative to resolve this problem. My name is Robert Leblanc address is 1008 Sandridge road Hubert NC 28539 Email [protected]@ec.rr.com.

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8:13 pm UTC

Chess.com chess.com

This site has a gps tracker that freezes your pg right before you're about to win and causes you to lose because of *game abandonment*...after I lose, it unfreezes ...and everything works great...it's getting obvious ..this been going on for years...but it gotten worse... it did it 5 times in one sitting (2 hours). Smdh causing me to loss games and drop my ratings. Is it because I'm black ? I'm filling civil rights lawsuit asap...I'm tired of these sites and apps. You cheating devils aint [censor] but liars.

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Gabe Harmat
Beverly Hills, US
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Nov 24, 2018 9:43 pm UTC

yeh, what is the phone number for this site?

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Gabe Harmat
Beverly Hills, US
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Nov 24, 2018 9:41 pm UTC

I have joined chess.com to play chess for fun and a learning experience. Unfortunately I have to report a bad experience with a person who goes by the name Queenspawn. After I lost a game against this guy he mocked me and in in a couple separate e mails he called me names such as : wino, old man, [censored]. I've responded in kind but then I was the one who got a warning. Funny, looking at comments from other players, apparently they all share my views that this individual is very unsportsmanlike, is an ungracious winner and lacking any social skills. This guy should take a few courses of martial arts where the first thing they teach you is respecting your opponent, being highly skilled in Krav Maga I'd be glad to teach him a couple lessons.

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Gabe Harmat
Beverly Hills, US
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Nov 24, 2018 9:20 pm UTC

wow, thanks for sharing, this happened to me too. I was in winning position on several occasions when the page froze on me too. I had to call my internet provider to install new equipment.

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Helen3003
Oakton, US
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Nov 19, 2018 2:41 pm UTC
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well why don't you call them the number +[protected]_O777 this might literally help
Yes, the same thing has been happening for well over 13 years...what a joke that they cannot fix the gimmick. LOL...they have some players that just don't want to lose, even if it means to cheat the game and kill it early.

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Detearing
Rancho Cucamonga, US
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Nov 19, 2018 2:13 pm UTC

Yes, the same thing has been happening for well over 13 years...what a joke that they cannot fix the gimmick. LOL...they have some players that just don't want to lose, even if it means to cheat the game and kill it early.

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7:28 am UTC

Chess.com closed my account

I loved this site in the past and spent a lot of my time on www.chess.com! Recently they closed my account for no reason! I have no idea what happened, I did nothing wrong! When I contacted them and asked what was the reason they claimed they don't have to explain anything. I'm extremely disappointed with Chess and the worst part is that I can't get any explanation!

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12:42 am UTC
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Chess.com re:chess order #293198

I subscribed for a chess game but found it to be far less inferior than what was advertised. I canceled the subscription the same day and requested for the refund of my money twice. The company did not care to respond to my requests much less refund my money.

I request the Board to enable me get my money back.

Thank you
Sincerely
Bekele Endalew

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jojom-h
Phoenix, US
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Jan 28, 2023 11:39 am UTC
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I gifted a years subscription to my brother but neither of us have recieved any word about it in our emails and so he has been unable to redeem this.

My account is MOJOjoanna and the order number is #[protected]

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Danny Owen
Huntsville, US
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Dec 17, 2022 9:17 pm UTC

My chess.com account allows me to play chess as usual. However, I have lost many other functions, including reporting a bug, asking a question, and sometimes access to my stats from previous games, lessons and training.

DMarkOwen

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filo riketi
Neptune City, US
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Oct 14, 2019 4:32 pm UTC

As you probably you guess I am leaving this comment toooo complained as how poorly you site ** is ** I have been plying for several years now and your people the ones that monitor your site are first ** racist ** I am not like to brand this word to anyone but in your case this is true, for some reason they don't like me and many time I had left very rude comments but is just for the frustration that your people are very unfair so that some of the time they don't want me to win and they take my time or they interrupt the game by no letting the pieces get fixed properly, if you would like to get in touch with me my address is E mail : fgcons831@gmail.com be free to do so

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