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Does anticheat exist on playchess?

I wonder how good playchess is in terms of dealing with cheaters. I know chess.com for instance is a place where they dont care about cheating. How is playchess different?
Of course they have such things. But here you have a consistent work-flow, auto-analysis, former games, better statistics, report button.

You can certainly report players at playchess and some are banned (automatically?), but where do you see all the games played by your opponent? How to analyze? Basically you have only yours.
It's somewhat misleading to say chesscom does "not care about cheating." The detection is improving (but far from what is seen at lichess), non-paying members will find an account deleted. But this is the problem. What to do with members that have a paid membership?? Can't hardly delete or restrict accounts for someone who is a paying member, so they get off with constant warnings. Non-paying members know how easy it is to simply make new accounts; many know how multi-account as CC does little to prevent the practice., which keeps their advertisers happy. CC makes a big show of it, but in practice little is done.
is it right that on playchess there is no way to see oponents account or even ratings?
All the 'anticheat' processes use algorithms. None are perfect so some cheat and get away with but worse I think is that some get banned who didn't cheat. Chess.com seems to fall into the former and LiChess' unfortunately seems to fall into the latter (but won't admit it and won't respond to questions about it). There are no prizes up for grabs. The ratings ultimately mean nothing so a) I don't understand why some cheat and b) to be honest, I don't really care. If they use an engine against me then I get to play (and probably lose) against an engine. So what.

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