Why you should report cheaters

@#30: Go play Stockfish at level 10 from now on and tell me someday how much you like getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild and how much you learned.

^^^This is why people, like me, don't want cheaters on the site. Winning isn't everything, but getting clubbed like a baby seal by some jerk isn't my idea of fun and/or education. (*I tried to play SF at level 10 one day because I was bored... it didn't take long before I was aggravated and felt like Hitler getting bent over in 'Little Nicky'.) It isn't hard to keep a loose eye out for suspicious players, and since we're getting to play on a really good site for free we all should help to make it as good a place to play as possible. (Not saying you HAVE to report players, its each persons call to do so or not... but turning a blind eye to cheaters just invites them to come here and stick around, which is not cool.) If you can't fully tell if someone is cheating then ask for a second opinion from another player.

#31 : This is your conception : i just wanted to say that i dont want to spend my times to find out if a guys cheated or not.
I guess i'm not as good as you to find out if my oppenent cheated or just played better than me.

In fact, i already got "elo refund", 5 times or something like that : but i'm not able to say "i knew it, this game i played against a cheater".

If a player who has a nearly identical score that you have, has an overwhelming attack against you, then you should be suspicious. I JUST lost to a person in 11 moves. To me, I find that VERY questionable. I know that I will NEVER again choose a game where the opponent wants one color. In this case it was white.

# 33. If you lose to a person in 11 moves you probably did something very wrong. Bxh7 is a very well known idea in those positions. You also resigned in a winning position.

I have only reported someone for possible cheating one time ever and I don't know for sure that he was cheating but it seemed extremely suspicious.

He was rated around 1600 and I beat him in the first game we played. I then accepted his offer of a rematch in which he played FLAWLESSLY as White against the Berlin Defense of Ruy Lopez. I complimented his play and asked if he had studied Berlin. His reply: "What is Berlin?" Come on, dude. Really???

On the other hand, I am not a super strong player myself and I have had games the engine has scored as perfect and I have never cheated so I don't really know for sure. I just wanted to give the mods the opportunity to look into it.

#33 you're almost 2000 rated and have no knowledge of the Greek gift in the French?? And the IM is right, white went from winning to losing with his last move. I'd hardly call that cheating...

@johnstrini It is a pretty tall order for you to accuse your opponent of cheating who committed a losing blunder immediately before YOU resigned. Wow.

I just don't understand what's the point of cheating. I guess cheaters are sadists or something.

I'm not sure which is worse; those who really do cheat or those who cry and complain they played a cheater because they lost.

@kstevens67 Amen to that. Although I have not noticed it quite as much here on Lichess as some other places I have played at still do sometimes. They will act as if just because THEY couldn't see something like a back rank mate threat without the help of an engine that such a thing is impossible.