Chess.com

Chess.com operates an apparent scam to get players to sign-up (pay) for its diamond service etc. It plays you against bots disguised as people. I know because I tried holding two different accounts - my ratings were significantly different! How is that explained?

First of all, it is a great app for different kinds of players from beginners to the pro ones.

I've downloaded their app a few weeks ago.

Points:
*Lag- it is minimal throughout the app but this obvious to the lessons part
*Limit to free users- it could have been increased to at least 2 lessons per day or 3 lessons. I find the one lesson per day kinda unnecessary.
* There is a variety of options to do in the app from lessons to types of game you want to play.

Once I got charged now game a analysis won't load. Lessons are ok but a little over my ability right now. Would be nice to see more openings and defense rather than 2 world class players battling it out

Most players in 1600-1900 range are blatantly cheating, they catch like 10% of cheaters or less after many weeks, this is only a scheme to bait paid subscribers and to do the bare minimum to keep the money coming in rather than to actually make a good playing environment for legitimate players. They actively delete forum discussions who criticize them. They should not be allowed to own the domain. My real rating is 2050 but can barely reach 1700 here because of all the cheaters. Avoid at all cost and never pay money. I would give it 0 stars if I could. Good review scores are given by site administrators or paid.

The site's user interface is really well done, one of the best (even better then Lichess) however that is basically where it ends.
1. No support at all from their help desk
2. Too many abandoned games
3. Way too much cheating
4. Getting locked into a color (i.e. 10 games in a row as black -- really?)

Okay, I tried to play but there are just too many people who use chess engines, I report them & months later I encounter him again and yea he still using the chess engine. Bad moderators terrible support.

My child has been playing on Chess.com with a clean record for over 3 years. He does not use engines, and he is an honest person. He has been playing chess every day, and he always studies his past games whether or not he wins or loses. He then writes it down, what he should do in that position, and commits to memory. This has helped him play in some tournaments with almost no inaccuracies, after we ran it through the computer. One day, after he got a first place online trophy in his school club game, he got his account closed for "Violation of Fair Play." I really think that Chess.com has closed his account mistakenly. Help!

Unless your a Grand Master, chess.com is unpredictable with the level of play a player possess. No matter their rating, the player can be considerably advanced. Lichess is better when seeking a comparable opponent. Chess.com expects you to play as black even when you've already played as black. Win or lose it should alternate especially if you protest by aborting a game or two. Rather chess.com will INSIST you play black and view you as abusing for insisting to play white, which you won't get. Lichess will alternate your color if you protest playing a color you just finished playing. Today is my white practice, but 80% of my games are my being black. Hacks, cheats and abusers are more frequent at chess.com. Overall chess.com the is most popular, and the most difficult opponents.

Chess.com has the first step of a tournament! A great source in my family.To be honest, I do have one con. The chat could be rude. I have got called a "loser". And somebody said "Bad Move". No problem with that just go in to settings and turn off chat. If you agree with this review and download the app 95% turn off chat. I do like that you can play some one and choose up to 30 min. A big question is "Are they bots?" No they are not. My proof is that I coordinated with a friend and searched the account and guess what, It worked.If you don't know how to play. Play a lesson. If you want to use your skills play a tactic. BTW you only have to pay $5 for more tactics everyday. Please show chess.com support by making an account or as many as you can. I hope my review convinsed you to get Chess.com.

I joined Chess.com to play with some friends. I got into it and soon was watching a lot of videos. Next thing I know I'm banned. They never exactly told me in any specific terms the reason. But they have a magical algorithm or statistics that say I must have used outside help, though I didn't. Clearly they do this just to try to take your money and run. From everything I've read they have lots of actual cheaters with fake accounts they do nothing about. Yet they ban real customers who do nothing wrong. Stay away!

The culture I downright rotten. There is an air of elitism and arrogance from even the most novice players. I had joined the server not necessarily as a dedicated one to play on. But more on a review/analysis basis of community's input. The thinking was simple; that I may improve very specific parts of my game by sharing it with the community. At no point did I expect that my review requests would be torn to shreds, and separate forum threads started just to insult my games and me personally... not worth the negativity.

Despite claiming to be a free website with so many useful sources of tips, the actual game is terrible if you don't remove ads. Bullet and sometimes even blitz is a joke if you constantly lag from ad updates. It also becomes so hard to concentrate for other game modes when you have video ads along the side of the screen. I seriously would like to see this site cater more towards the avid chess player than money hungry ad companies.

My son loved chess.com and has worked hard to improve his rating > 2000 over the last couple of years. He recently won a chess.com qualifier tournament and got banned supposedly in breach of their fair play rules. He loves his chess and is not the kind of kid to be cheating - in fact he gets very annoyed about the amount of cheaters on the site. (I also happened to be sitting next to him during the tournament so I know that there was no unfair play involved)
They are interested in your money but have zero integrity and the tournaments they run have zero credibility - especially when kids like my son who are progressing and play well get banned with zero evidence presented from their side as to why they are making that decision.
It rings true with other reviews on here that it is likely the bots or automated systems that are incorrectly banning players and they are very reluctant to overturn this.

I have been locked out of chess.com for quite a while now and don't know why. I try the reset password function and it says there is an email sent to reset, but it never gets received, even in spam folder. Emails to support are ignored. Anybody have suggestions?

Don't waste your time or money with chess.com. There's so much cheating on the site and they just retort with made up numbers about how many cheating accounts they closed each day. It's meaningless. Most games will have the other player using a chess machine to try to beat you, or "occasionally" use the cheating so they can't be detected by the so-called "cheat detection." It's a sham and I would recommend against paying money to a site like this unless you really like playing computers masquerading as humans.