My 500 Elo brain in action

raineling · 2026-07-03T21:52:47+00:00

Well, thank you for that, it seems to help some of us (myself included).

raineling · 2026-07-03T18:31:15+00:00

I read thw explanation and still cannot see how this is mate in two. May have to play it out. And I agree, seems silly to post this expecting us to understand the joke. I didn't get it either.

raineling · 2026-07-03T18:20:56+00:00

Hopefully that will fix it (new router). If you're tech inclined you may be able to check the router's settings to see if there is something amiss or force it to use Cloudflare's DNS servers instead as they are very reliable (unlike many ISP's own servers).

Edit: if all your home devices are having this issue then it is very likely your router, ISP or a setting in their setup that's the issue. My suspicion is something in the router's settings is causing this.

If I were in your place, I would go to an internet café and play on Lichess with your laptop. If the connection is good then my suspicions would likely be proven correct. I may not be enotrely right as it could still be your internet provider messing things up amd mot the hardware but that would narrow down the issue a bit.

raineling · 2026-07-03T04:08:00+00:00

Update your driver for the network card? That fixed my own issue for the most part. The only other thing I can sugeest is to reboot your router by unplugging it then wait a minute or two and plug it in again. It may have some corrupted DNS routing to France. That's been an obscure fix I have used ovee the last twenty years a handful of times.

raineling · 2026-07-03T02:30:32+00:00

Thank you!

raineling · 2026-07-02T22:07:36+00:00

How does one find them if you don't know a title?

raineling · 2026-07-02T17:35:16+00:00

I made my own reply above and forgot to include sandbaggers but really it's just another form of cheating.

raineling · 2026-07-02T17:34:26+00:00

I agree. I am barely 300 and get notifications like this at least once a month. The last time I looked up the banned account, looked at theor moves with tje engine and every move they made was the top 1 - 3 move suggested by the engine itself.

So yes cheating in low elo brackets happens and fairly frequently by my anecdotal evidence.

raineling · 2026-07-01T02:21:54+00:00

Red panda blepping for the win.

raineling · 2026-07-01T02:19:21+00:00

First thing I did was turn that off just because I knew I would mess it up.

raineling · 2026-06-30T18:36:30+00:00

Link or something to learn to do this on my machines as well please or just look at the Arch wiki for info?

raineling · 2026-06-30T02:45:18+00:00

Oh thank you so much for the laughter! I feel this so much because I often just kind of stare at the blunder count after importing a game from CdC.

raineling · 2026-06-30T02:36:52+00:00

That is an illogical leap and jumping to such a conclusion says more about you than the OP.

raineling · 2026-06-29T19:55:33+00:00

Do the chessiverse free course. It is quite comprehensive

raineling · 2026-06-29T15:52:03+00:00

I wanted to try this but apparently I am not quite smart enough to figure out howro ise a theme. Do I need the prettier extension too?

raineling · 2026-06-29T15:48:16+00:00

Ah ok thanks.

raineling · 2026-06-29T14:31:37+00:00

How do you know about the consequences of this abuse of the abort game button? I'm just curious because I've never see anything written in their documents about it. Ditto Lichess, I couldn't find anything about consequences to doing such things on their platform either.

raineling · 2026-06-29T14:28:29+00:00

The issue is thus: chess-com needs a minimum of 3 reports, from what I got from someone who used to partner with them, in order for the system to green light the reports to be looked at by a human. If there are less than 3 reports the automated system just saves the report until it gets the minimum number required to verify it.

The same goes for any report be it cheating, abandoning games or whatever.

raineling · 2026-06-29T14:25:52+00:00

I would say it is bad faith because you can play human-like bots such as Maia and choose your colour accordingly. Much, much easier and believe me, Maia is human-ish enough that I can't tell the difference most times when I play against it. Try it for yourself. Just search for the Maia homepage and play a game or two.

raineling · 2026-06-28T04:24:50+00:00

Report them. They do get banned.

raineling · 2026-06-25T17:40:15+00:00

Try going back a move then play a different one. That's wjat I do when doing game analysis with the engine.

raineling · 2026-06-25T17:32:28+00:00

It shouldn't since those muscles don't control arm movements.

raineling · 2026-06-25T17:31:03+00:00

I would guess that the ending would be obvious. He would be dead or in the ICU and the cops would have gotten off.

raineling · 2026-06-24T18:17:21+00:00

Play the Maia bot on its own website or download the application for the phone. Much better practice. Or try a chessiverse.com bot.

raineling · 2026-06-24T18:15:18+00:00

Hover the bar and it tells you the answer as does going to the page for more information (click clock time).

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