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Disturbing players while games are in progress is clearly unacceptable.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 9:10 am"My name is Harut Barseghyan, IM, ELO 2463 (born 1998). I am writing to you because I had some unpleasant experience lately with your anti-cheating team and as a result my account was closed.
Then when I was playing my 4th game with a weaker player as well in the middle of the game when I had about 1 minutes someone from Chess.com started to write in English but I understand very poorly as my English is bad and this situation was very strange. But I realized that I need to open something I opened the link and it was visible the blue screen the board was not visible.
... (before the game against Van Forest I was late for about 10 seconds because I was showing my apartment).
An anonymous player with a high online rating, that doesn't tell us much.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:00 amHere is one of the 'weak' players he beat, a 2878 rated GM
https://www.chess.com/live/game/4846768 ... harut-1998
Apologies we both made a mistake here, this isn't one of the 'weak' players referred to it's the Daniil Lintchevsky game. Here is the opponent's profileNickFaulks wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:46 amAn anonymous player with a high online rating, that doesn't tell us much.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:00 amHere is one of the 'weak' players he beat, a 2878 rated GM
https://www.chess.com/live/game/4846768 ... harut-1998
It doesn't exactly speak of a rigorous and professional approach.Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 10:03 amDisturbing players while games are in progress is clearly unacceptable.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 9:10 am"My name is Harut Barseghyan, IM, ELO 2463 (born 1998). I am writing to you because I had some unpleasant experience lately with your anti-cheating team and as a result my account was closed.
Then when I was playing my 4th game with a weaker player as well in the middle of the game when I had about 1 minutes someone from Chess.com started to write in English but I understand very poorly as my English is bad and this situation was very strange. But I realized that I need to open something I opened the link and it was visible the blue screen the board was not visible.
... (before the game against Van Forest I was late for about 10 seconds because I was showing my apartment).
Eligibility to play is determined by FIDE rapidplay rating so chess.com ratings are irrelevant. As we've seen at OTB events (e.g. London Classic rapidplays) there are players with very high standard FIDE ratings and very low rapidplay FIDE ratings.Adam Raoof wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 4:21 pmWhat is the logic behind hosting an event like this on a platform with a live rating system?