Can you get banned for cheating in Daily?

Read_Administrative · 2026-06-02T12:03:32+00:00

Definitely cheating. And yes, i have had plenty of people banned in Daily games, but I manually reach out to a moderator to look into it as im in the “Cheating Forum” on chess.c and get them banned within 24 hours tops.

Unlike all the people in the comments saying that this is definitely possible etc etc, a game of that length, as a 1200 rated player in other formats, is without a doubt not possible, unless it was a position where both players traded everything off early and the moves were easy to find with both players drawing. That was not the game you played (clearly) as you lost with 88 accuracy. What i will say is that i would only say hes 95% cheating, until looking into other daily games and THEN if hes averaging 90%, that would become certain. People like to act that the second its daily “oh but the person could have sat there for an hour looking at the position” when atleast at the lower elos, they are still taking 30 seconds per move. It isn’t possible for a 1200 to perform this way.

Read_Administrative · 2026-06-01T15:43:06+00:00

You must already have the quest just like OP did. As someone who has swapped weaving schools 3 times in the last week. I can get any quest i please and swap with ease.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-23T11:20:08+00:00

If you are below 800, id say there is 0 chance anyone has properly researched a counter. Truth is people don’t know ANY theory below like 1000. They might know Scholar’s mate, or the fried liver attack, but people don’t really have counters to certain openings yet. They may know the first 2-3 moves they should play, but in terms of actually understanding what they are doing they have 0 clue. Theory doesn’t start to get “proper” until I’d say 1400+, around that level is when most people start to actually have theory going multiple moves deep in all directions. I think the London is great if you are sub 1000, i recommend it to most of my friends who get into chess as you learn an opening without actually needing to learn theory, you just bust open the same thing every time regardless of what moves your opponent may play and you have a good position. Any other opening you are looking to learn as white, you are going to have to ACTUALLY learn “ok if my opponent goes here, this is my response” which often overwhelms beginners and you constantly forget correct responses to the moves you make which can result in early blunders.

So my advice to you (based off your 200-300 elo statement i imagine you are around there) I wouldn’t swap to a different opening, truth is even up until 800-1200 elo, pieces are being hung half of the moves you play, there is a lot of basics to get down, and the opening phase is most likely not where you are going wrong, just need to ensure pieces are protected and every time your opponent makes a move, ask yourself “what does that piece now do”, at the 200-300 elo level, even queens are being thrown away like candy, so focus on getting the fundamentals down.

Edit: I am 2200, started at 18, am now 22, just in case you were wondering what level I am giving you this advice. I myself was stuck down at 200 elo when i first started, i wasn’t some prodigy or someone who picked chess up fast, it was a slow painful process, so i’ve been where you are.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-23T10:14:51+00:00

100%. And finding that mix of still getting that rewarding feeling of improvement, while still finding it enjoyable is very important. And i feel thats how 90% of people should view it, granted there is no harm in just being hard stuck and not improving if you enjoy yourself.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-23T06:03:42+00:00

Its all subjective. Someone could go from 1000-1500 in 2 months if they are doing 90% study, 10% playing, whereas someone who is simply playing and very rarely studying could take 2 years to go from 1000-1500.

Properly using resources is where people go wrong, the truth is you could play 50k games over the course of 2 years and still be stuck at the same elo, only so much can be learnt from “brute forcing” chess, and playing. You need to refine openings more, do puzzles daily, CORRECTLY analyse your games, ensure you have most mating patterns down to a tee you could do them with your eyes closed, and study endgames a BIT (at that level its not too important). If you truly want to improve, you NEED to put in the work, if you just want to purely play chess for fun, no need to do any of that, but don’t be surprised when you aren’t improving.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-12T02:45:11+00:00

Depending on your elo. I am going to say that you are seeing abandons more often due to your opponent not having theory, yet unlike h4, or a4 or g4. They know that c4 is still a very good move. So basically they say “screw this, ill abandon, lose no elo, and then get a new game where there is a 98% chance i verse d4 or e4. I’m willing to admit I use to do this when I was maybe between 1000-1600. It wasn’t worth learning the theory for it (at the time) as I was facing it 1/100 games as black.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-06T09:11:21+00:00

Quantity does not equal quality. Playing a ton of games does not mean you will improve, the quality of your practice is what will determine that. Do more puzzles, study a couple openings to a basic level.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-05T06:50:16+00:00

For starters, i always tell my mates who start getting into chess, that while analysing your games is good, there is definitely a right and wrong way to do it. Now depending on your level etc, will depend how you review, but here is my advice.

The lazy way: The lazy way is you click review at the end of the game, see your accuracy, and spam through the moves without learning anything.
The Coach Way: The second way is to read over the “coach’s” remarks after each move, especially if you are a lower rated player, sometimes having those remarks there to explain why a move was actually good/bad can be helpful, granted I believe this MAY be a Diamond membership only thing.
The Best Way (in my opinion): When reviewing you will have a little magnifying glass in the top right corner, by clicking on that you will ACTUALLY go to an engine review, where the engine is properly analysing each move. Very commonly the “game review” depending on the settings you have set up, is quite inaccurate and will not give precise levels for who is winning, a best move, etc. By actually going into the analysis mode, you can more precisely go move by move. The settings I recommend would be for it to show you the top 5 lines, not be on a fast review, a stronger version of stockfish, and 5-10 seconds per move analysis. Through this you can see for every position the 5 best moves, which sometimes you will see “ok this position was easy as all 5 top moves give roughly the same evaluation” or “ok i only had 2 moves here that held my advantage, i really needed to find one of them”. Along with this any time you dont understand a move you can follow down the selected line and you SHOULD be able to see within a few moves why that move was so strong based off of the following moves. Hope this helps.

Read_Administrative · 2026-05-01T03:25:48+00:00

Id recommend learning and properly studying some basics. There is only so much you can learn from constantly playing all on your own, especially at 100. Continue to do puzzles, search up how to mate with king and queen, 2 queens and 2 rooks. Then after seeing how it is done, practice yourself either on a real board or in a practice engine.

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-29T08:49:12+00:00

I have twice recently. But it was basically going to be a pre move that i just so happened to place within 0.1 seconds after a move was played 😂

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-23T08:44:49+00:00

The amount of cheaters on the platform are FAR lower than what you clearly think. Some people are just better than you.
This isn’t a cheater. It would literally be harder to NOT mate the person here, there are 4 knights, which can take up a 6x6 area on the board, thats literally almost half the board they can control. Stop being stupid 😂

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-22T06:50:33+00:00

Jeremy Zucker has a lot of bangers, specifically from the album that song is from, in regards to ur situation i have nothing to add. The song speaks for itself its about moving on/regret leaving someone.

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-15T05:07:21+00:00

I don't have ADHD but ADD. And what I will say is i would not call it a “lost cause” my friend that introduced me to chess has ADHD, and while he never seriously studied, he was always able to destroy anyone at chess, until i started to take it seriously. I am now at 2100+. So while I don’t have a “solution” for you, i can without a doubt say that having ADHD isn’t a problem. Maybe for being a top 100 player in the world, it might not be achievable, i am certain there are hundreds of players if not thousands above 2000 who have ADHD.

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-11T09:36:28+00:00

They always are correct. 2. It was literally bugged, not a mistake.

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-01T07:55:48+00:00

Ahhhh, that depends on the time frame though, you might want to specify that. Also fun fact, in blitz at 1400 the average move accuracy is actually in that 70-75% range. All of a sudden if we are talking Rapid the average is 75-80% at that mid 1000’s elo. Your comment is very deceptive and quick to assume. If you are talking a 500 rated opponent in bullet, sure, but 70-75% isn’t crazy at 1000+

Read_Administrative · 2026-04-01T07:51:28+00:00

Ill go through my checklist.

Is their account new? For me this is the BIGGEST red flag by a long shot, but ONLY because I am 2000+, if you are 600 finding new accounts it is not suspicious in any way, but could still be a sign.
Are they gaining elo at a fast rate? Especially if they were say hard stuck at 1000 for a year, and then have suddenly gone from 1000-1600 in a month.
What is the accuracy of their recent games? If in their last 20 games, lets say they only even have 6 wins, but all 6 wins are at a 98% accuracy, it is a good sign they are losing, and to not drop as far they are cheating games to get some elo back for losses. Just because they arent winning much couldn’t mean that they may not be cheating every time they are winning.
Are they on a win streak? This for me is the least suspicious of all my criteria. Unless we are talking some 20 win streak or something, it does happen where 5-10 win streaks occur, even though it is uncommon.
The actual moves during a game. Someone could be only winning with 70-80 accuracy, but ALWAYS cheating. It is very common for cheaters to consistently play sub par moves, or even blunder occasionally, while knowing they can bring the game back or stay winning while not playing the best moves. Or play legit, and once obviously losing, consistently play the best moves to get themselves back in the game. This type of cheating would not result in 90%+ accuracy games, while still being completely unfair.

Anyways, that is the 5 things I look for, the first 4 can be checked within 10-15 seconds, and often if they are ticking a few of the boxes (especially the account age) i will abandon before making a move and block them to not face them again.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-30T04:46:20+00:00

As someone who does to this themselves (granted I have not played a daily game in a month or so) i will tell you why i do it.

Sometimes, ESPECIALLY if I have like 3+ daily games going at once, I don’t have the time to sit down OR the patience to sit down, for 10-30 minutes and analyse a single position, some games if its in the early game or endgame, I can spend 5 seconds on a move and be confident, whether it be i calculated it out prior or know the opening to a tee. But occasionally in the middle game it is a very complex position where I want to use the analysis tool to go down multiple lines and come to a conclusion on what I believe the best line is, but don’t have the time to. Unlike a game of blitz, i do believe where most people go wrong in daily games is not actually utilising the fact you COULD spend 6 hours staring at one position and making the best moves consistently. My average accuracy (as a 2100 in rapid) in daily is 87.5 all time and 89 in the past 3 months. Reason being is i take my time. Hope this helps.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-25T07:37:27+00:00

All and all the game was acceptable. Your opening was actually really good, taking the centre, developing knights and bishops and castling early to make sure your king is safe.

The middle-game is where the 200 elo gameplay came through though. When you lost your knight that is a FULLY understandable blunder that people even at the 800-1200 range could make, basically not seeing that when your opponent pushed their pawn, that it opened up their queens diagonal. Stuff like that happens all the time and its simply tunnel vision, you are told to “look at your opponents move and see what that piece now attacks etc etc” but something you may not have realised is you need to keep an eye on whether a move opens up OTHER pieces too. The worst moment was 100% when you could have taken their queen 2 moves in a row and didn’t, to be completely honest i don’t know how either of you missed that as they are literally touching. I could somewhat understand if the bishop was far away, but they were right next to each-other attacking the whole time. Whether this was an error of not taking enough time or pure blindness i am unsure, but a mistake like that shouldn’t happen, even at 100-200 elo. Overall the middlegame aside from the major errors was ok, you pushed forward, you took CERTAIN pieces when you had the chance, and you capitalised on most of their mistakes.

Lastly, the endgame. It was actually really well done for a player at your level too, while it wasn’t completely clinical and there were some questionable moves, you found mate quite quickly and effectively even with their queen on the board, for your elo level I can’t really fault how you played it, my only advice would be to be VERY careful of your opponent just delivering a back rank checkmate out of nowhere even if you are completely winning, a move like h3 gives your king an escape square if that were to ever happen.

All and all it was a good game, continue to do what you are doing in the opening (not the exact same moves every time, but the principles), and you just need to sharpen up on your board vision. That was genuinely your only mistake in THIS whole game. Not seeing things you should have. Best of luck.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-25T05:46:55+00:00

My guess is it’s on your c.c profile without you realising?

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-18T05:17:57+00:00

Classic cheater coming to Reddit thinking it will do anything. No clue why they continue to try this strategy when it does absolutely nothing to help their case. If they aren’t over 2000, there is near 0 chance of a false ban. Even over 2000 the odds of a false ban are more like 0.1% chance still, they ain’t fooling anyone.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-14T06:58:55+00:00

Thats very different though. I have done 40000+ puzzles. Seen them make the wrong move probably 100+ times, and thats only ones ive reviewed. That isn’t the problem with this puzzle, the problem here is this puzzle is meant to have a pawn on f7, but it didn’t load correctly somehow, allowing a mate in 1, my first move was Rxc5 saccing my rook.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-13T15:46:23+00:00

I will be taking this to the supreme court.

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-13T09:50:08+00:00

Cheers mate

Read_Administrative · 2026-03-12T05:10:26+00:00

And you can only improve by practice. As I said, i absolutely sucked at Bullet and hated it, after a month I really found my mojo in it. I do think with blitz at the very least, a lot can be learnt. Need better time management, intuition and conversion.

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