96% Accuracy

To get straight to the point, an opponent was insinuating I was using an engine or something and it's really upset me. Initially I thought he/she was just a sore loser, but he/she was right about me having an insanely high accuracy and low ACL, normally I get about 30-40 ACL and around 80-85% accuracy, but I did have 96% acc and ACL below 20.

Here's the game: https://lichess.org/study/A2WyD0Mr

I know it shouldn't bother me, but it's really messed with my head. Queen f3 was a terrible move, so I took advantage of that. I just feel like my best play has been totally invalidated. I'm an older guy so I don't really know about the engine/computer stuff, but the computer didn't align with my moves anyway.

the game is actually here:

Well there's a few moves that are kinda strange i can see why your opp would think it

anyway it happens, high acc

All the moves you played were logical and don't seem to be engine based

I think the only reason why your opponent accused was because of the rating gap

I think this looks like legitimate human playing, so yes, i think u didn't cheat.
In terms of high accuracy, the situation of the game matters. For example, if a side blundered a queen at the beginning of the game, the other side is likely to have a really high accuracy since its lopsided from the start. However, if both sides are in an extremely sharp position and only one or two moves are correct, a high accuracy is this kind of situation is ultra sus in my opinion. Since the entire game is relatively peaceful, I think its easier to get a higher accuracy here.

@ninehundredsixty said in #2:

the game is actually here:

Well there's a few moves that are kinda strange i can see why your opp would think it

anyway it happens, high acc

Oops sorry about that, thanks for posting the game. I do play some offbeat moves, just surprised by the extremely high acc.

Don't worry about it, you played nice logical moves.
I think he thought you were cheating because of the rating gap and that you played very well for an 1800 in classical; take that as a compliment though!

@Orphan_X said in #1:

but I did have 96% acc and ACL below 20.

That acc doesn't mean much to be honest.
If i don't blunder something straight away or don't get bored through the game - i have like 95%+ acc
like this game 99% acc

does it mean that i cheat? 1300 rated player can't have 99% acc, right? WRONG! if your opponent plays weak- it's easy to get 99% acc vs that weak play. That's all that means. In the game you linked white played weak. They went for a total exchange of material to lose in the endgame. In the middle game both black flanks were ruined and king stuck in the center.. white should've gone for attacking black king but they didn't

yeah i think thats pretty much the point