I crushed a 2200 - he reported me for cheating

It’s always great to be hackusated after you’ve played a great game; the opponent acknowledges your play while still being sore about losing. It still baffles me though, has cheating become so normal on this site you get accused after severel mistakes and blunders, and even in a bullet game...?

Feel free to check out the game and tell me what you think! (I am 1800 in bullet on my main profile btw...)

Yesterday I watched a game of former world champion Emanuel Lasker on another chess server, where he clearly cheated. See? Accusations are easy.
My opinion to your game is completely irrelevant. The right people will check your games with the appropriate tools, and if you did not cheat, you won't even notice it.

I wouldn't worry too much about an unranked game where both sides made plenty of blunders and mistakes. I see he got hung up in zero inaccuracies, but mistakes and blunders are of course just grave inaccuracies (-:

There are sore losers at any level.

The game can be frustrating for many, the accusation often comes out as a way to save face. They may be embarrassed to lose, often it's from having a huge advantage and screwing it up, so they look for an excuse to make it not their fault for losing. most of these people are on a loss streak

The exact same thing happened to me. I outplayed my opponent who had a winning position, and what should have been a good-natured handshake at the end, was accusations and suspicions. It was stupid. What a waste.

I actually had to end up blocking him because I was worried that if we played again, he would feel free to "prove" his suspicions. There is no good that comes of bringing up the topic. None at all.

Thanks to the echo-chamber in the forums, created by people that participate in speaking about the matter carelessly, there is the perception of an epidemic that simply does not exist. Period, point blank.

You asked, "Are there so many cheaters?" No. There aren't. They're almost non-existent.

Is there that much unfounded suspicion? Yes. There absolutely is.

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1. There is hardly any cheating in online chess.
2. Lichess handles it the best.
3. If you suspect someone of cheating report them.

It's as easy as 1-2-3. Anything else is counter-productive and harmful.

Other than that, it's time to eviscerate this pervasive echo-chamber that does absolutely no good and only causes bad upon bad upon bad.

It is rotten and needlessly spoils everything.

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This explains my point perfectly:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Wiok4H1RY

Totally agree with you @Onyx_Chess , if you f-ed up yourself, blame yourself and leave the game... However, I think the issue these «echo-chambers» are worried about are the cheaters playing second or third best engine moves to evade the detection software(?). Whether this is common or not, I have no clue. I have only played a few cheaters (that I know of) myself, but it’s been so blatant they’ve usually been flagged just a couple days later.

I also agree with Onyx_Chess. I'm marked as a computer assisted player. I made an appeal, and got an analysed game, i cheated in reply. I only used my smartphone app in that game. Lichess cheat detection detected it, and my account is marked, after that game.
So don't worry ChessForSuccess. Every cheater on lichess, will be quickly found.