Chess.com closes 100k accounts monthly for fair play violations

Chess.com today revealed details about how many accounts it closes down in the average month due to cheating and other fair play violations. According to its findings, it closes roughly 100,000 accounts per month, which is about 0.3% of the site’s total accounts, with most of them being recently created accounts. According to the site’s Fair Play team, the number of accounts used for cheating has increased at the same rate as users are signing up to play, but the age of the accounts has decreased.

The platform revealed more details about the accounts closed, noting that the number of games played for each closed account has dropped in recent months. Successful screening procedures mean that violating accounts are caught before they can go against a larger number of legitimate players, but the platform also notes that the number can go lower.