As much as I wish it was they very rarely ban players that cheat using more than one brain cell which makes it even more common to have to face cheaters, I'm not even kidding when I say I use Lichess as a training platform where I know I can't make any mistakes or inaccuracies otherwise I'll just lose because the opponent will capitalize on it regardless of the positional or strategic complexity. Plus the ratings being inflated is a bit off-putting but admittedly minimal.
@@ChessWithSaurabh when Levy's out of content he goes after literally everyone. Maybe not right now because we got the Olympics but I'd expect something like this afterwards.
It seems that your opponent just played a really bad game, you exploited his mistakes, and he got peeved that he lost to a lower rated opponent. I suspect he didn't even analyze the game before accusing you - because if he had, he'd have seen the mistakes, and seen that a player of your level would likely be able to exploit those mistakes. It was ridiculous and petty to claim you were cheating based on that game.
@@j.lahtinen7525 I think he became suspicious during the game but he didn’t actually accuse me until after analyzing the game. You can see his reaction on the first vid on my channel
Pretty clear that what happened, is that the complaints against you lead to an automatic ( computer not human ) review of your account for cheater patterns, and those sandbagged games came up. And after your appeal, it was reviewed by a human who read your appeal and checked past correspondence. They have so many subscribers, that their first line support are bots.
You're very brave for publishing this. I hope this video serves as a way to reflect on what the chess community is in 2024 and how self-destructive we can get simply because of someone playing a good game.
I hate such accusations, because while I feel fluttered at first, the next games I play I can’t get it out of my mind that I might again be accused of playing too well
Sorry for the screen flickering in the first half of the video. My PC broke and I am using a slightly janky laptop + monitor setup for now. Thanks for watching!
I agree getting banned for something that had already been resolved is silly. There should have been records of what happened to prevent this. And I do think they should keep a record of false accusations, and at some point warn and possibly take other action if someone is constantly claiming cheating and being wrong, particularly if they encourage others to attack that person in some way. I can't say he told them to harass you because I didn't see his stream or whatever but if he did I would hope that is reprimanded.
He didn't specifically tell his viewers to report or harass me, but as a streamer he must know his first ever cheating accusation on stream (also claiming he is 100% sure) might have some impact on his viewers' opinions and actions. You can see his on stream comments on my first vid, I also link the VOD to his stream
Thanks for sharing this. I really hope that you will change to lichess or smth, or otherwise grind so much that you become GM or smth and they will stop accusing you (or they will, because Niemann case exists and one random self-righteous GM just might quit the tournament because he thinks you cheat), or both haha why not. Anyway, I wish you all the best!
To be honest, with millions of active users, I'm sure the fair play team have their hands full. Implying that mistakes will be made and sorry to hear you had to bear the full brunt of that. Unfortunately, with the accouny history you mention I can certainly understand how an automated process probably banned your account. Wierd that your account got hacked .. how does that happen .. did you logon using a public computer or network or something?? Also your opponent's behaviour sounds like pure tilt, nonetheless inexcusable for someone who is supposed to set an example. Good luck with your channel.
Paranoia about cheating is as rampant as cheating. The detection software is flawed & has dubious metrics; toggling! The sad thing is it's nearly impossible to prove your innocence
The sad thing is the insane increase in the amount of cheating over the past 12 months. If you hadn't noticed it you are either improbably lucky or simply incapable of noticing it. In which case, good for you.
@@IncontenentiaButtux What level do you play at, to be able to notice an 'engine move' over a player finding a Great move? Surely you have to play at an elite level, otherwise you're just speculating.
It's sad to feel insecure every time you play good chess. The truth is that after some level (2000+) all players get familiar to some setups with even some of them close to perfection like high titled players do. The thing is that we can't be good at all positions. It seems that your opponent got angry to loosing to a lower rated. The accuracy is not always a cheating indication. Also one game is not enough to prove any sort of cheating, you need to score multiple times in a row with high accuracy on different structures and systems. What is mostly sad is that they banned you right after you crushed that strong opponent for different reason. This should happen much earlier if it would be a reason for a ban. Glad to hear you got your account back!
_"you completely misthandled my case"_ Yep, and you're not the only one. I wonder what hteir "accuracy" rating is for identifying and banning actual cheaters vs innocent people.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am always very concerned when I play good chess, sometimes with accuracy exceeding 95%, because I know the suspicion it raises. False positives in cheating detection happen!
Sure Kramnik did the procedure in any time, to me happen something near of your case I had a god streak of victorys in a Arena Kinga and they ban me for the streak
Throwing around such accusations without considering the repercussions is a foolish thing indeed. It demonstrates a shortsightedness that I find surprising from a highly ranked chess player.
My one and only 99 percenter also involved an opponent playing horrendously. Same (roughly) 15 move total domination type of game. I'm more interested in and proud of a 95+ game with opponent coming in at 90+. C.c is just a mess. Operationally they weren't fully dialed in before the big bump in participants. It very much feels like they're still bobbing in the big wave that hit them. Support is just god awful. Anyway, this is online chess now. It's no good when you get inappropriately accused of cheating. But honestly, the accusations aren't close to being in line with all the cheating actually taking place. I'm regularly getting messaged about a refund of points due to cheating. For TT, maybe consider something proactive. Multiple camera shots recording your whole room/environment. Avoid playing on a powerful, multiple PC setup. Even then, cheating is possible. There really are no solutions. Again, this is online chess now. No site is immune.
My theory is that they don't let you reach a certain peak in chess without accusing you that you cheated so in another words they don't want you to grow they want you stuck
I remember getting that email many years ago 😂 It basically said, if you’re a titled player please register your title with us, and if you’re not a titled player, we’re watching you 😂
If I had to guess I would say 19. Nxf5! was a pretty amazing move, ignoring the hanging queen. That might have aroused suspicion. Im 400 points below you but theres no way id see that move in a blitz game in a million years
Once I was banned for "cheating" because I was analyzing the moves with a live board. And yeah, that's obviously cheating xD But it was the kind of cheating that made me learn and it was kind of hard to catch I presume, because I actually had to think for myself, the only difference was that I could see the future clearly and my opponents couldn't... I was banned, but I was proud because it made me realize that if I was able to train being able to see more clear future positions, then I would just improve!
What? You are saying you mirrored the position from the website onto an irl board and doing so made you capable of calculating so much further that you got banned? ... mhm
@@virno69420 Yeah I was playing long games, 30 minute rapids and even longer, and I had the board in front of me, to calculate variations. I was winning a lot of games that raised their suspicion I guess and I could find moves way above my rating
Its a bot that is set loose to crawl thru your games so when you got reported it looked thru your whole account and saw sandbag games then someone on fairplay just rubber stamps it. They said in july they would start annoucing titled players that were closed by name but crickets.
I don't know how their detection works, but it makes sense for them to have a bot quickly scan all games to tag for potential fair play violations. They should really have a way to see that I was already banned and unbanned for those games, because otherwise I don't see how they won't always make the mistake of banning a user twice who's had their account hacked and banned before.
What's funny is that there's an account named Indonesia_goblok that's still unbanned, It sandbags a lot on bullet games and wins elo back by playing like a 1800 or by cheating
Step #1, create another account if possible and use it to play since the original one is closed anyways. Step #2, if this doesn't work, check to see your accuracy in your games to make sure that you didn't score over 95% a lot Step #3, if your new account gets closed too, then you must get help from someone to appiel for you instead.
@@findystonerush9339 im not a cheater and my account is not closed for fair play , and whats the point of new account if it will just get banned cause of ip, my friends also tried appielieng and nothing
So, is this just a story of ego? The grandmaster had too much ego to admit he lost to somebody "lesser"? The fair play team had too much ego to admit they made a blunder? Their egos get in the way of others, like you. Pity.
What were you doing when you weren't playing chess -(while someone else had hacked your account & was playing chess) - For those couple of months? 🤔🍵 You mean you just say by idly while an unknown individual played chess on your account? 🧐 I understand you reported it- but you didn't play while it was happening?
Around the time I got hacked I probably hadn't signed into my chess.com account for weeks or maybe 1 month+. I primarily play on Lichess and only found out I got hacked when I received a ban email in April 2023
It's actually not that surprising that they look through more than just one reported game. But how did you get your account back after being hacked? Chees com reset your password or something?
Not providing reason is crazy but mistakes happen. No need to be outraged. I don't think they were looking for a reason to ban you but simply reviewing your account after getting many reports of your account. Yes the anticheating team needs work but vids like this do literally nothing to improve anything at all. In the end they fixed their mistake so this video seems like slightly in bad faith.
Chess.com literally confirmed that they verified my claims it in the second email I showed in the video. I could have also shown my email communications with them from April 2023 but I thought that would be enough. Apparently some UA-cam commenters will never be satisfied.
same happened to me i dont take chess seriously but i play it all day and play classical and yet i got ip banned and couldnt login so i had to sign up using data this was on my phone so i dont even understand
Maybe you're right, but the only reason they shouldn't generally share info is because it could potentially be used as anti-cheating. I didn't show anything sensitive. In my case, I feel that it should be expected they inform me that the reason for my ban wasn't because I was suspected as cheating, and that it was basically a system error.
Someone reported, they pushed it through the system and a backend service will analyze all of your games for cheating patterns. Since your account was hacked, those games were flagged and you were banned. The appeal process worked correctly. No need to be too upset. Everything worked properly.
I already got banned & unbanned for the same games over a year ago. I don't think that everything worked properly if a system is banning a user for specific games played, unbanning them because they actually did not violate fair play, then banning them again for the exact same games they were cleared for. Doesn't it seem like a relatively simple expectation that they would have an easy way to notice this? Someone on the Fair Play Team must have manually reviewed my ban, otherwise my account should be constantly getting auto-banned if the hacker's games get automatically flagged and confirmed as sandbagging. The recent mass reports after I beat a GM who accuses me of cheating live in front of an audience is certainly what caused the Fair Play Team to look at my account. They should be skeptical that the reason I was receiving these reports was not because of games played on my account more than a year ago in April 2023, and this discrepancy should have at least raised some eyebrows for the Fair Play Team. They should have been more diligent during manual review by looking at the ban history of my account rather than banning me first and doing those basic checks later.
@@NMTkachenko I agree with a lot of those points. 1 thing they can do to improve the process would be to store a record of the ban history and only analyze games after the last instance of the ban history. Then you won’t get banned multiple times for the same thing that was false to begin with. Knowing how important fair play rules are, especially in recent times, it makes sense that they should focus on optimizing this process to eradicate false bans.
The fact that those games had already been resolved and he was still banned for them by the automatic system means that at least the automatic system is faulty.
You get banned for a supposedly suspicious game against a GM, and what do you do? You post a game against some other *Joe Schmoe* to justify your level, instead of simply showing us the Ibarra game.
@@conorq377 Showing a game where the opponent plays weakly to justify your level is not very convincing - Showing the Ibarra game will allow viewers to decide for themselves whether Ibarra's suspicions were justified. Moreover, I have to say that ChessCom admitting their mistake and reversing a ban gives me more confidence in their cheat detection not less - Keep in mind that no cheat detection is perfect. Online cheating is a huge problem and I respect ChessCom for tackling it aggressively. Clean chess players cannot have it both ways.
I am not trying to justify my strength to you or anyone who watches this video. I have already been cleared by Chess.com from cheating. The game at the end was just for fun to show my highest accuracy OTB game. Also, check out my first video on the channel where I review the Ibarra game in full.
Do you want me to make another whole video to show my emails regarding getting hacked from April 2023? I expected that showing an email where Chess.com explicitly says they were able to verify my claims that I was hacked would suffice as proof, but I guess not.
Your username sounds like a bot account. You can either plead guilty for violations or appeal. If he successfully appeal to the ban which he did, then there's not problem.
I'll admit I'm bored to death within 2 minutes of this but take it as a blessing. You might get your life back instead of loitering in your bedroom hours and hours on end. Little wonder there is so much mental illness among our young. Clearly what matters to most is their internet addiction. Those bars on your thumbnail are truer than you think ..😊 Btw GM's don't become GM's by playing online blitz, where younger people are generally sharper, but shallow
@@itzssorenn Of course. I'm a mature, wise, worldly experienced man, not a bedroom-anchored child, teen or Genz enchained by a screen. The facts are so many of our young are mentally off the rails. This is why an entire continent is going to ban social media from children. Limiting screen time for all young people will improve their mental health, but no doubt such wisdom is lost on all the addicts who frequent these things. Junkies will never accept their opiate is bad for them. Lol
@@itzssorenn Yep, thank goodness I was raised in a generation where suicide, anorexia, self-harming, etc, were almost almost non-existent. Just look at this guy cry-babying ... not because he's starving, or bombs are dismembering people around him, or he has no food, but because one of many online chess platforms dumped him??
@@vivvpprof how can it not? Chess com accused him. Chess com retracted it and reinstated his account. If the later doesn't mean anything then the former doesn't mean anything.
Suggest you learn something about cheat detection before you make judgments. Secrecy is important to keeping it working. Revealing what you were asked not to is a good way to help make sure no one gets any explanation at all in the future.
What exactly did he reveal? He revealed that Chesscom made a mistake and admitted to it. It had nothing to do with their anti-cheat methodology. They just don't want to be publicly held accountable.
Think about it this way……… The fact they banned him at all, and tried to bully him into admitting it in order to maintain an account, that shows their cheat detection is not nearly as foolproof as they make it seem……..
99 missed calls from Hans Niemann
Fair play teams choices are very very interesting.
Rule of thumb: Never play good chess
I once get suspended for 1 week for losing a lot games. The system called me a sandbagger.
Welcome to Lichess!
Been there since 2018, Lichess is the best :)
They don't care about chess. They care about money.
hence the grey flag
You got a valid point! Well spoken and thx for publishing it!
Can a master not have a great game anymore?
Lichess is better
Props for you for publicly disclosing chess coms abusive behavior
As much as I wish it was they very rarely ban players that cheat using more than one brain cell which makes it even more common to have to face cheaters, I'm not even kidding when I say I use Lichess as a training platform where I know I can't make any mistakes or inaccuracies otherwise I'll just lose because the opponent will capitalize on it regardless of the positional or strategic complexity. Plus the ratings being inflated is a bit off-putting but admittedly minimal.
@@IncontenentiaButtuxThere’s rampant cheating on both sites however Lichess is completely free
Gotta get this to the Gothamchess channel fr, this is crazy
He would never cover something like this
@@literallysweden of course he would
@@usibistronot a chance dude
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@@ChessWithSaurabh when Levy's out of content he goes after literally everyone. Maybe not right now because we got the Olympics but I'd expect something like this afterwards.
It seems that your opponent just played a really bad game, you exploited his mistakes, and he got peeved that he lost to a lower rated opponent. I suspect he didn't even analyze the game before accusing you - because if he had, he'd have seen the mistakes, and seen that a player of your level would likely be able to exploit those mistakes. It was ridiculous and petty to claim you were cheating based on that game.
@@j.lahtinen7525 I think he became suspicious during the game but he didn’t actually accuse me until after analyzing the game. You can see his reaction on the first vid on my channel
Pretty clear that what happened, is that the complaints against you lead to an automatic ( computer not human ) review of your account for cheater patterns, and those sandbagged games came up. And after your appeal, it was reviewed by a human who read your appeal and checked past correspondence. They have so many subscribers, that their first line support are bots.
Makes sense. But it's insane to allow a bot to close someone's account where the standard policy is to not even disclose a reason.
Well said. Very good to stick up for yourself.
You're very brave for publishing this. I hope this video serves as a way to reflect on what the chess community is in 2024 and how self-destructive we can get simply because of someone playing a good game.
Yeah that big farmer did the same, don't tell anyone of our mistakes.... millions down... :(
I hate such accusations, because while I feel fluttered at first, the next games I play I can’t get it out of my mind that I might again be accused of playing too well
Highly enjoyed the analysis of your 99 game. Subscribed immediately.
Thank you!
Sorry for the screen flickering in the first half of the video. My PC broke and I am using a slightly janky laptop + monitor setup for now. Thanks for watching!
Hopefully this will teach you to think twice before you try and beat a GM again, er*k.
I agree getting banned for something that had already been resolved is silly. There should have been records of what happened to prevent this. And I do think they should keep a record of false accusations, and at some point warn and possibly take other action if someone is constantly claiming cheating and being wrong, particularly if they encourage others to attack that person in some way. I can't say he told them to harass you because I didn't see his stream or whatever but if he did I would hope that is reprimanded.
He didn't specifically tell his viewers to report or harass me, but as a streamer he must know his first ever cheating accusation on stream (also claiming he is 100% sure) might have some impact on his viewers' opinions and actions. You can see his on stream comments on my first vid, I also link the VOD to his stream
Mr. Tactics has broken the internet with this one
Erik is an honest dude
So they couldn’t find fault with the
said Game and had to dig up some
Old/Repackaged Dirt to get to you.
Punishment was fixed before Trial. 😊
I hope this video spreads. People throw out accusations way too easy this times.
Thanks for sharing this. I really hope that you will change to lichess or smth, or otherwise grind so much that you become GM or smth and they will stop accusing you (or they will, because Niemann case exists and one random self-righteous GM just might quit the tournament because he thinks you cheat), or both haha why not. Anyway, I wish you all the best!
To be honest, with millions of active users, I'm sure the fair play team have their hands full. Implying that mistakes will be made and sorry to hear you had to bear the full brunt of that.
Unfortunately, with the accouny history you mention I can certainly understand how an automated process probably banned your account.
Wierd that your account got hacked .. how does that happen .. did you logon using a public computer or network or something??
Also your opponent's behaviour sounds like pure tilt, nonetheless inexcusable for someone who is supposed to set an example.
Good luck with your channel.
Thank you for sharing!
Paranoia about cheating is as rampant as cheating.
The detection software is flawed & has dubious metrics; toggling!
The sad thing is it's nearly impossible to prove your innocence
The sad thing is the insane increase in the amount of cheating over the past 12 months. If you hadn't noticed it you are either improbably lucky or simply incapable of noticing it. In which case, good for you.
@@IncontenentiaButtux What level do you play at, to be able to notice an 'engine move' over a player finding a Great move? Surely you have to play at an elite level, otherwise you're just speculating.
@@interstellarbeatteller9306 High enough for you to know, that I know enough to speak.
It's sad to feel insecure every time you play good chess. The truth is that after some level (2000+) all players get familiar to some setups with even some of them close to perfection like high titled players do. The thing is that we can't be good at all positions. It seems that your opponent got angry to loosing to a lower rated. The accuracy is not always a cheating indication. Also one game is not enough to prove any sort of cheating, you need to score multiple times in a row with high accuracy on different structures and systems. What is mostly sad is that they banned you right after you crushed that strong opponent for different reason. This should happen much earlier if it would be a reason for a ban. Glad to hear you got your account back!
Mr Tactics: Chess Vigilante
Subbed Erik thanks to screw you choob recommending and maybe I can learn something from your videos. Cheers brother, power on!
This video needs more visibility
_"you completely misthandled my case"_
Yep, and you're not the only one. I wonder what hteir "accuracy" rating is for identifying and banning actual cheaters vs innocent people.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am always very concerned when I play good chess, sometimes with accuracy exceeding 95%, because I know the suspicion it raises. False positives in cheating detection happen!
This turned out better than I thought. They fixed their mistake.
I believe you, this is ridicuolous. Sadly, most likely noone will have to face consequences.
Sure Kramnik did the procedure in any time, to me happen something near of your case I had a god streak of victorys in a Arena Kinga and they ban me for the streak
Sore losers. Even I, a 2100 LiChess player, have beaten NMs and drew GMs over-the-board. I routinely get accused of cheating by weak players.
Rating shouldn't really matter that much. I got beat by a
Throwing around such accusations without considering the repercussions is a foolish thing indeed. It demonstrates a shortsightedness that I find surprising from a highly ranked chess player.
My one and only 99 percenter also involved an opponent playing horrendously. Same (roughly) 15 move total domination type of game. I'm more interested in and proud of a 95+ game with opponent coming in at 90+.
C.c is just a mess. Operationally they weren't fully dialed in before the big bump in participants. It very much feels like they're still bobbing in the big wave that hit them. Support is just god awful.
Anyway, this is online chess now. It's no good when you get inappropriately accused of cheating. But honestly, the accusations aren't close to being in line with all the cheating actually taking place. I'm regularly getting messaged about a refund of points due to cheating. For TT, maybe consider something proactive. Multiple camera shots recording your whole room/environment. Avoid playing on a powerful, multiple PC setup. Even then, cheating is possible. There really are no solutions. Again, this is online chess now. No site is immune.
This is why I don't play online anymore.
I am wondering if you have been added to Karmnic's scrolls of shame
I thought it was Kramnik who reported you
Free my man!!!!
In the future have a 2nd camera pointed at your monitor for online tournament games. It's that simple.
My theory is that they don't let you reach a certain peak in chess without accusing you that you cheated so in another words they don't want you to grow they want you stuck
I just checked your game against ibarra and it does look you cheated honestly. mr 2000 fide
This scummy website used to send out emails to all 2000+ rated players accusing you of cheating when you first cross that rating
I remember getting that email many years ago 😂
It basically said, if you’re a titled player please register your title with us, and if you’re not a titled player, we’re watching you 😂
If I had to guess I would say 19. Nxf5! was a pretty amazing move, ignoring the hanging queen. That might have aroused suspicion. Im 400 points below you but theres no way id see that move in a blitz game in a million years
Once I was banned for "cheating" because I was analyzing the moves with a live board. And yeah, that's obviously cheating xD But it was the kind of cheating that made me learn and it was kind of hard to catch I presume, because I actually had to think for myself, the only difference was that I could see the future clearly and my opponents couldn't...
I was banned, but I was proud because it made me realize that if I was able to train being able to see more clear future positions, then I would just improve!
What? You are saying you mirrored the position from the website onto an irl board and doing so made you capable of calculating so much further that you got banned? ... mhm
@@virno69420 Yeah I was playing long games, 30 minute rapids and even longer, and I had the board in front of me, to calculate variations.
I was winning a lot of games that raised their suspicion I guess and I could find moves way above my rating
Yesh. I think it's weak for strong players to sus just bcos they get outplayed by lower-rated players. Danya does this, too. Drives me nuts!
The issue with reporting is huge, its even worse than cheating
Its a bot that is set loose to crawl thru your games so when you got reported it looked thru your whole account and saw sandbag games then someone on fairplay just rubber stamps it. They said in july they would start annoucing titled players that were closed by name but crickets.
I don't know how their detection works, but it makes sense for them to have a bot quickly scan all games to tag for potential fair play violations. They should really have a way to see that I was already banned and unbanned for those games, because otherwise I don't see how they won't always make the mistake of banning a user twice who's had their account hacked and banned before.
What's funny is that there's an account named Indonesia_goblok that's still unbanned, It sandbags a lot on bullet games and wins elo back by playing like a 1800 or by cheating
Maybe you can help me please? My account is closed for abuse while i didnt do anything! When i tried appieling, i just got ignored!
Step #1, create another account if possible and use it to play since the original one is closed anyways. Step #2, if this doesn't work, check to see your accuracy in your games to make sure that you didn't score over 95% a lot Step #3, if your new account gets closed too, then you must get help from someone to appiel for you instead.
@@findystonerush9339 im not a cheater and my account is not closed for fair play , and whats the point of new account if it will just get banned cause of ip, my friends also tried appielieng and nothing
So, is this just a story of ego? The grandmaster had too much ego to admit he lost to somebody "lesser"? The fair play team had too much ego to admit they made a blunder? Their egos get in the way of others, like you. Pity.
What was your accuracy trend
I hope all goes well and you get your account back, free my man
@@TWJamesSS I got banned last Wednesday and unbanned a few days ago 🙏
Yeah, a hacker got into your account and played only 4 games?
No, as I showed in the video they played 20+ games with most of them wins, but the last 4 involved sandbagging.
@@NMTkachenkothat makes no sense. Sorry man, the 'someone hacked me' sounds like a lame excuse.
@@Someone-tn8ur Chess.com verified that I got hacked. I show that in the video lol. Why would I make that up?
Somebody Let Hans know.. are you in America?
What were you doing when you weren't playing chess -(while someone else had hacked your account & was playing chess) - For those couple of months? 🤔🍵
You mean you just say by idly while an unknown individual played chess on your account? 🧐
I understand you reported it- but you didn't play while it was happening?
Around the time I got hacked I probably hadn't signed into my chess.com account for weeks or maybe 1 month+. I primarily play on Lichess and only found out I got hacked when I received a ban email in April 2023
The biggest problem is- why would a hacker want to give you credit for games their winning? 🤔
No idea why they did. What's the problem? It literally happened
yes extremely rare lol they baned me for no reason i play online tourment and go first and they ban me but i dont cheet !!
It's actually not that surprising that they look through more than just one reported game.
But how did you get your account back after being hacked? Chees com reset your password or something?
Not providing reason is crazy but mistakes happen. No need to be outraged. I don't think they were looking for a reason to ban you but simply reviewing your account after getting many reports of your account. Yes the anticheating team needs work but vids like this do literally nothing to improve anything at all. In the end they fixed their mistake so this video seems like slightly in bad faith.
someone hacked your account and cheated in games?
ok sure bro lmao
Chess.com literally confirmed that they verified my claims it in the second email I showed in the video. I could have also shown my email communications with them from April 2023 but I thought that would be enough. Apparently some UA-cam commenters will never be satisfied.
same happened to me i dont take chess seriously but i play it all day and play classical and yet i got ip banned and couldnt login so i had to sign up using data this was on my phone so i dont even understand
and i average at around 88% accuracy on a good day maybe 91% and yet im flagged for cheating
Why not show the game against Navara?
He has a video doing a recap on his channel
@@XxUSAF1RExX Thanks
they should pay for what they did. that's why they asked to keep it in secret...
I think they were asking you not to share that they were looking at old games from you… not that they made a mistake
Maybe you're right, but the only reason they shouldn't generally share info is because it could potentially be used as anti-cheating. I didn't show anything sensitive. In my case, I feel that it should be expected they inform me that the reason for my ban wasn't because I was suspected as cheating, and that it was basically a system error.
Post the Ibarra pgn bro.
Check the first video on my channel
Look at his previous video bro.
You don't understand now do you? Smart move to make this vid NOT.
They are extremely lazy in my opinion. Some better pairing could help a lot.
bump
99% accuracy is proof of cheating, unless the game is very short, fool's mate or under-20 miniature.
99% accuracy is much more common in classical, especially when the opponent blunders multiple times
Free Erik till its backwards
Someone reported, they pushed it through the system and a backend service will analyze all of your games for cheating patterns. Since your account was hacked, those games were flagged and you were banned. The appeal process worked correctly. No need to be too upset. Everything worked properly.
Stop making sense; you're gonna make him mad.
I already got banned & unbanned for the same games over a year ago. I don't think that everything worked properly if a system is banning a user for specific games played, unbanning them because they actually did not violate fair play, then banning them again for the exact same games they were cleared for. Doesn't it seem like a relatively simple expectation that they would have an easy way to notice this? Someone on the Fair Play Team must have manually reviewed my ban, otherwise my account should be constantly getting auto-banned if the hacker's games get automatically flagged and confirmed as sandbagging. The recent mass reports after I beat a GM who accuses me of cheating live in front of an audience is certainly what caused the Fair Play Team to look at my account. They should be skeptical that the reason I was receiving these reports was not because of games played on my account more than a year ago in April 2023, and this discrepancy should have at least raised some eyebrows for the Fair Play Team. They should have been more diligent during manual review by looking at the ban history of my account rather than banning me first and doing those basic checks later.
When it happens to YOU, then let us know if everything worked properly!
@@NMTkachenko I agree with a lot of those points. 1 thing they can do to improve the process would be to store a record of the ban history and only analyze games after the last instance of the ban history. Then you won’t get banned multiple times for the same thing that was false to begin with. Knowing how important fair play rules are, especially in recent times, it makes sense that they should focus on optimizing this process to eradicate false bans.
The fact that those games had already been resolved and he was still banned for them by the automatic system means that at least the automatic system is faulty.
Do you want some cheese with that whine?
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You're definitely a chess cheater because your account is hacked
You get banned for a supposedly suspicious game against a GM, and what do you do? You post a game against some other *Joe Schmoe* to justify your level, instead of simply showing us the Ibarra game.
Bro did not watch the video lol, he got _reported_ by a salty GM and his minions, and then got _banned_ supposedly for old games.
pretty obvious why he did that, showing he has that level OTB where cheating is harder, what's the need to show the Ibarra game?
@@conorq377 Showing a game where the opponent plays weakly to justify your level is not very convincing - Showing the Ibarra game will allow viewers to decide for themselves whether Ibarra's suspicions were justified.
Moreover, I have to say that ChessCom admitting their mistake and reversing a ban gives me more confidence in their cheat detection not less - Keep in mind that no cheat detection is perfect.
Online cheating is a huge problem and I respect ChessCom for tackling it aggressively. Clean chess players cannot have it both ways.
I am not trying to justify my strength to you or anyone who watches this video. I have already been cleared by Chess.com from cheating. The game at the end was just for fun to show my highest accuracy OTB game. Also, check out my first video on the channel where I review the Ibarra game in full.
You can watch his previous video on that game dude. Get it together and stop spitting bullshit.
Stop complaining. Start your own chess network where there is no cheat control.
@@tury99 chess2.com coming right up
I think that's a terrible idea, have you played any games without cheat control? Cheaters are a buzzkill
As soon as the "account was hacked" comes out you lose all credibility. You need big evidence for that kind of claim.
I agree. "My account was hacked" is pretty sus.
Do you want me to make another whole video to show my emails regarding getting hacked from April 2023? I expected that showing an email where Chess.com explicitly says they were able to verify my claims that I was hacked would suffice as proof, but I guess not.
Your username sounds like a bot account. You can either plead guilty for violations or appeal. If he successfully appeal to the ban which he did, then there's not problem.
I'll admit I'm bored to death within 2 minutes of this but take it as a blessing. You might get your life back instead of loitering in your bedroom hours and hours on end. Little wonder there is so much mental illness among our young. Clearly what matters to most is their internet addiction. Those bars on your thumbnail are truer than you think ..😊
Btw GM's don't become GM's by playing online blitz, where younger people are generally sharper, but shallow
You good bro?
@@itzssorenn Of course. I'm a mature, wise, worldly experienced man, not a bedroom-anchored child, teen or Genz enchained by a screen. The facts are so many of our young are mentally off the rails. This is why an entire continent is going to ban social media from children. Limiting screen time for all young people will improve their mental health, but no doubt such wisdom is lost on all the addicts who frequent these things. Junkies will never accept their opiate is bad for them. Lol
@@steveperryman8102 yeah you’re def over the age of 18 bro we all believe you
@@itzssorenn Yep, thank goodness I was raised in a generation where suicide, anorexia, self-harming, etc, were almost almost non-existent. Just look at this guy cry-babying ... not because he's starving, or bombs are dismembering people around him, or he has no food, but because one of many online chess platforms dumped him??
@@steveperryman8102 yap yap yap
Stop cheating.
Chess com literally admitted he wasn't cheating
@@tolkienfan1972 that doesn't mean anything
@@vivvpprof how can it not? Chess com accused him. Chess com retracted it and reinstated his account. If the later doesn't mean anything then the former doesn't mean anything.
Suggest you learn something about cheat detection before you make judgments. Secrecy is important to keeping it working. Revealing what you were asked not to is a good way to help make sure no one gets any explanation at all in the future.
What exactly did he reveal? He revealed that Chesscom made a mistake and admitted to it. It had nothing to do with their anti-cheat methodology. They just don't want to be publicly held accountable.
It is a cope to make themselves look better in this case
Nothing about my case has to do with “cheat detection” because that would imply that somewhere there was cheating.
Dumbest comment of the day.
Think about it this way………
The fact they banned him at all, and tried to bully him into admitting it in order to maintain an account, that shows their cheat detection is not nearly as foolproof as they make it seem……..
@Gothamchess
I’d like to follow you on twitter .. you need twitter
Gonna focus on growing the YT first, maybe I will have one later on. Also, Twitter is a scary place
@@NMTkachenko puck fear.. take what you want.. just stay humble and learn how to love it’s 3x more powerful than fear
@GothamChess