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The moderators at Lichess.com are utterly clueless when it comes to handling their anti-cheat system. I got automatically suspended just for leaving games to avoid obvious hackers or hack testers pulling shady moves. Instead of catching the real cheaters, their flawed system flags innocent players like me for "suspicious behavior." The current anti-cheat setup is a joke—it can’t reliably detect actual cheating, like players using engine assistance, making impossible moves no human could calculate, or exploiting forced moves in unnatural ways. Common hacking techniques on Lichess include running Stockfish or other engines in the background, using browser extensions to auto-analyze positions, or even scripting bots to play perfect moves instantly. Some cheaters deliberately disconnect and reconnect to manipulate game timers or throw off opponents, and yet the system somehow misses these red flags while punishing legit players for dodging sketchy opponents. Moderators need to wake up, overhaul this broken anti-cheat, and stop treating every disconnection or cautious move as evidence of wrongdoing. It’s infuriating to see a platform that claims to love chess fail so hard at protecting fair play. Fix the system, train your mods, and start targeting the real hackers instead of alienating honest players!

PurpleInferno edited

#2

You're getting temporary bans for asshole behavior, not suspicious behavior. Stop aborting games, it's annoying for your opponents!

Only 8 of the 191 games you've played have been analyzed. You have zero idea how well your opponents actually played. Nor does the cheat detection system know - game analysis is not the only way to detect cheaters, but it's an important part of the process.

You're getting temporary bans for *asshole* behavior, not suspicious behavior. Stop aborting games, it's annoying for your opponents! Only 8 of the 191 games you've played have been analyzed. You have zero idea how well your opponents actually played. Nor does the cheat detection system know - game analysis is not the only way to detect cheaters, but it's an important part of the process.

mkubecek

#3

@Encoder21 said in #1:

I got automatically suspended just for leaving games to avoid obvious hackers or hack testers pulling shady moves. Instead of catching the real cheaters, their flawed system flags innocent players like me for "suspicious behavior."
Wrong. Temporary playbans for users who keeps abandoning games repeatedly have nothing to do with cheat detection or "suspicious behaviour". Its purpose is to discourage players from being inconsiderate to their opponents.

@Encoder21 said in #1: > I got automatically suspended just for leaving games to avoid obvious hackers or hack testers pulling shady moves. Instead of catching the real cheaters, their flawed system flags innocent players like me for "suspicious behavior." Wrong. Temporary playbans for users who keeps abandoning games repeatedly have nothing to do with cheat detection or "suspicious behaviour". Its purpose is to discourage players from being inconsiderate to their opponents.

corvusmellori

#4

In the most recent game that you lost, which you lost on time, your opponent blundered a queen in a single move.

In the game before that, your opponent hung a piece and you simply didn't capture it.

In the game before that, you hung your queen with a single move, which your opponent didn't even take. The very next move, you hung mate in 1.

Your losses don't really seem like they must be the result of cheating, to me.

In the most recent game that you lost, which you lost on time, your opponent blundered a queen in a single move. In the game before that, your opponent hung a piece and you simply didn't capture it. In the game before that, you hung your queen with a single move, which your opponent didn't even take. The very next move, you hung mate in 1. Your losses don't really seem like they must be the result of cheating, to me.

Bazigar_64squqres

#5

@Encoder21 said in #1:

The moderators at Lichess.com
lichess.org

@Encoder21 said in #1: > The moderators at Lichess.com lichess.org

A Lichess Moderator

#6

You have sent a lot of reports, but none of them actually are a "cheat report".

None of the reports have a game link, as explicitly asked for.

None of them provide any description of what the problem is.

I haven't checked all reports now, but in the games I looked at you did not even care to run the analysis - or you would have spotted the plenty mistakes for both sides. None of those allegations you mention in your post make sense. You simply have no idea what users do on their end, so do not claim otherwise.

Stop accusing people of cheating when you are simply blundering. Stop abusing the report system with nonsensical reports.

Thank you.

You have sent a lot of reports, but none of them actually are a "cheat report". None of the reports have a game link, as explicitly asked for. None of them provide any description of what the problem is. I haven't checked all reports now, but in the games I looked at you did not even care to run the analysis - or you would have spotted the plenty mistakes for both sides. None of those allegations you mention in your post make sense. You simply have no idea what users do on their end, so do not claim otherwise. Stop accusing people of cheating when you are simply blundering. Stop abusing the report system with nonsensical reports. Thank you.