New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Chess.com is broken
Tell HN: Chess.com is broken
3 by thatwasunusual | 0 comments on Hacker News.
For the 2nd time I've been banned from chess.com, without any explanation whatsoever. My only guess is that I played "too good," someone reported me for "faul play", and that that person decided I'm a cheating bastard. Some background info: I started playing chess as an 8 year old, mostly because it was the only game available on my father's computer at the time. I learned all the openings and what not, brute force mind you, and always had a "feel" for chess. Speed forward, I play chess FIDE, but lack of interest places me on only 1400-ish. Friends of mine starts to play it on chess.com, I join in, and I quickly outperform them, and I start to play others. This is where chess.com decides to just ban me. They ask for my FIDE credentials, so I take a copy, send it to them, and they re-open my account. Two years later, they close my (paid) account, no reason given. I have _never_ used chess.com for monetary reasons, nor will I. It was always just for fun.
3 by thatwasunusual | 0 comments on Hacker News.
For the 2nd time I've been banned from chess.com, without any explanation whatsoever. My only guess is that I played "too good," someone reported me for "faul play", and that that person decided I'm a cheating bastard. Some background info: I started playing chess as an 8 year old, mostly because it was the only game available on my father's computer at the time. I learned all the openings and what not, brute force mind you, and always had a "feel" for chess. Speed forward, I play chess FIDE, but lack of interest places me on only 1400-ish. Friends of mine starts to play it on chess.com, I join in, and I quickly outperform them, and I start to play others. This is where chess.com decides to just ban me. They ask for my FIDE credentials, so I take a copy, send it to them, and they re-open my account. Two years later, they close my (paid) account, no reason given. I have _never_ used chess.com for monetary reasons, nor will I. It was always just for fun.
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