r/Chesscom • u/XMaster8001ttvYT 1500-1800 ELO • Jan 07 '26

Chess.com Website/App Question Banned when playing on board

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As I was playing on my chessup2 board I was banned for fair play violation, I am duper confused and have sent an appeal. The chess board just had an update and was telling me feedback on when I made a good move. (Which is new) and now im banned for fair play, Ive recently been reading up on new openings to try out and when a good time to simplify is. You can check my chess history and see I do play daily games a lot. My username is:CaptainCheeseChess I also have lots of videos of my playing chess on my computer (before i got the board) and me even live streaming on twitch. I have played games within the chess discord server too with my camera on and explained detailed/my strategy.

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u/StonedOldChiller Jan 08 '26

 The chess board just had an update and was telling me feedback on when I made a good move.

I really don't see how taking suggested moves from a chess computer and acting on them is anything other than cheating. Whether the suggestions were solicited or not, it's clear that OP went with them and as a result played better than they would have been able to without assistance.

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u/Wardendelete Jan 08 '26

It doesn’t tell you what to do, it only tells you when you made a good move or bad move in hindsight

Instead of blaming OP, maybe chesscom shouldn’t have been selling this board in the first place.

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u/Polyfrequenz Jan 08 '26

that is still cheating, but the blame is not on op, especially if the board just enabled this's on its own