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I cannot find an opponent

Hello Lichess!

Why am I not able to play a rank game on lichess? Am I banned or something? I cannot find any opponent who fits on my rank settings (2300-3000). I am always fixed with an opponent who has 1500 rank points.

Im looking forward for your answer.
Best regards
Lichess has many layers of cheat detection, and it can't easily be fooled. You probably cheated by opening a chess engine window in your computer or phone and transferring moves or analysis over to the game. This is unfair, and as a consequence, you get a red cheater label on your profile, get stripped of all your ratings, and can no longer play rated games. You can play 1500 players in unrated games.

What can you do now? Don't cheat. Don't use a chess engine analysis during your game. Use it afterwards to learn. If you want to play rated, you can start over again from zero by making a new account and earning your rating the honest way.
New account of former cheater is to be banned too. Whether he is using engine with it or not.
Play at chess.com. There dont care about engine use
When you can answer properly just reading the title of the thread...

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