When you have a prepared line it's not uncommon to get really high accuracy when you get that line. One of my openings I get 100% accuracy when they go down the line (it ends in checkmate). If they fall for a trap or just play poorly in the opening a lot of time the tactics available are fairly forced, so even if you play a longer game it's not hard to get mid to upper 90% accuracy, even though all you did was play the most obvious move. Sometimes the obvious move is the best one (or at least close to the best).
Won my first game b/c opponent thought I was cheating
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Sep 1, 2023
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I'm a 2000 or so player here, and I almost never play more accurately than 93%. But that's largely because I play goofey openings and try and make things as chaotic as possible. Playing style can tilt accuracy stats a little. I would be suspicious of a 1500 playing a 96% accuracy game, but if it is just following theory deep into a game, then it's going to happen sometimes. Some people are paranoid and/or jerks. I'd take it as a compliment that you played so well you broke the dood's brain.
...one thing I don't understand is, how did he know you were playing so accurately unless he had the game in an engine himself?
Sep 1, 2023
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limehouse2 wrote:
...one thing I don't understand is, how did he know you were playing so accurately unless he had the game in an engine himself?
I was wondering the same thing!!
I'm a sub 1k player and have had a game where my final accuracy was 95%. I just had a good game and reacted well to my opponent's moves because I'd seen the patterns before, that's all. I'm like you, normally a 80% or below accuracy guy who has his moments of greatness and stupidity. In contrast to my 95%, I won one with 45%.
Sep 1, 2023
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Anaton21 wrote:
I'm a sub 1k player and have had a game where my final accuracy was 95%. I just had a good game and reacted well to my opponent's moves because I'd seen the patterns before, that's all. I'm like you, normally a 80% or below accuracy guy who has his moments of greatness and stupidity. In contrast to my 95%, I won one with 45%.
Yeah, plenty of my wins are <40% (and losses too, ha). But once in a while you just avoid doing anything silly and you get that really high accuracy.
Playing a 24h time control game, opponent resigned on move 16. Somehow I played a very accurate opening - I have been testing out Ben's Philidor Defense move order, but this one ended up in some sort of Pirc / Dragon type thing. Opponent sent a chat message with "how are you making no mistakes or inaccuracies?" Funny thing was, the game was very equal up until about move 15 where there was a fork coming where I would win an exchange.
Reviewing the game, somehow I played 96.1% accurate which I almost never do. Usually I'm around 75 - 80%. My rating is only 1500ish. Does this happen a lot? Even if you think someone is cheating, why would you resign in a close game?