@userfriendly2 said in #5:
> Yeah I admire chesscom publishing these stats - it highlights the issue and shows the hard work behind the scenes to address it.
>
> It's also good in the interest of transparency. There is no reason to assume there are less cheaters here but would be interesting to see if the account closures match up.
Actually, it doesn't really show anything : these stats are extremely easy to inflate.
Chess.com can decide how "sensitive" their cheat detection will be.
They can decide to ban only the accounts for which they are 99.99% sure the player cheated, but then many cheaters will remain undetected. Or they can decide to ban every account for wich they are 60% sure they will ban more cheater but countless innocents too.
So a high number of Fair Play closures is easily obtainable : they just have to consider everyone even remotely suspicious as a cheater.
Most innocent people unfairly banned won't try to sue
Chess.com. It's much simpler to create a new account.
Keep in mind I don't accuse
Chess.com of closing more accounts than they should, I just say it's possible, and even in their interest to do so since it allow them to tell everyone they have the best cheat detection in the world.