I am playing a game of chess in a tournament.  The first game against this player, his rating was around 1500, mine at about 1680.  He pulled off an upset after I played poorly.  So my rating went down some and his rating went up some.  Great.  The second game, his rating started at about 1550, mine at about 1660, and as the game has progressed, his rating has dropped dramatically.  Right now, my rating is about 1630, his is about 1100, when literally 10 minutes ago, he was at 1300, and several hours ago, his rating was 1440.  I have a feeling that he is sandbagging just to win back a ton of rating points as he is winning this second tournament game against me, and to kill my rating.  I looked at his history, and he lost 8 games TODAY!!  Several of them looked like either the opening or middlegame, and he RESIGNED AGAINST A 600 AFTER PINNING THE OPPONENT'S QUEEN TO THE KING!!  Could someone please check and make sure that this is legal??  I'm sure that some of his losses and wins were real, but eight losses in ONE DAY!!  That looks so artificial.

Perhaps he enjoys to drink some beers while playing blitz... losing a lot of games on a day is not so weird, because sometimes you are tired or listening to music, phoning and playing table tennis while playing a blitz game.

I think that losing on purpose is not legal. Losing to 600 is very strange even if you are high on drugs etc. ;-) I geuss you should contact an admin if you want him to be punished.

Cheers,

Jurjen

It would sure help to start by mentioning his nickname...

Putting off a win/loss to try and save rating isn't necessarily against the rules as it is unsportsmanlike and rude.

If you feel like he's doing something against the ToS then use the Report Abuse function at the bottom of the page and the staff will look into it.