Question on Chess.com Rules

So the terms state pretty clearly that each player is allowed to have only one account.  I would like to make alternative account for when I am drunk / high / seriously sleep deprived / chased by bears / etc. and am for whatever reason incapable of playing proper chess. I love playing, regardless of my general capacity to calculate but I hating waking up and realizing I lost 150 elo in blitz because I was playing chess without a brain.

I feel like this would be reasonable.  

As you stated.  Having 2 accounts is against the site rules.  And to make matters even worse, you have publicly stated your desire to have multiple accounts.  Guaranteed, that your account(s) will be watched closely.

For the record I am sure the rule exists to prevent people from playing games against them selfs / joining tournaments multiple times / or other such nonsense to manipulate fair play / ratings.  So even if I did have alt account I wouldn't be concerned with mods scouring the logs to try and find it.  I hardly believe chess.com would eager to ban me, a paying customer of over six years, without a warning.  Frankly, even if I hadn't been paying, I wouldn't expect to be banned as I have been a member for over 8 years.

More importantly I didn't start this thread to wine about  the rule or the mods.  I started this thread to suggest that perhaps the rule should be amended to reflect its intent and allow for legitimate alt accounts.

you might be the only sober player here.

Ask the moderators, they might help.

I don't think they're going to help with letting the OP have two accounts.

Play on another site.

This actually what I do at this point but I would rather play on chess.com

Then play unrated games when you're drunk.

As much as I love the anticipation of waiting for a game start, I would actually like to play chess not just wait for a game. Playing unrated games requires at least one other person also be interested in playing unrated, which no one is.

That's the dilemma, isn't it.
You don't want to lose points, they don't want to play unrated.
Kinda hard, really.

You forget that it is also unfair to the people I farm getting the rating back.  It doesn't help anyone having my rating be super unstable, it kind of just destroys the whole point of a rating system, i.e. to identify players strength.  When I am drunk my strength is considerably lower, so wouldn't it make since if my rating magically reflected this. If there was only some way to separate out my drunk games from my sober games, so that the system could toggle between the two ratings, we would have sanity.  My rating would reflect my strength, as apposed to my strength in some wildly different mental state.

So if you understand the problem so clearly, I don't see why the solution eludes you.

1. Play unrated games.
2. Play on another site.
3. Don't play under the influence.

Tadaaa.

I already said I play on another site.  That doesn't make me satisfied.  I want to play on chess.com, the rule as written allows for no exceptions.   They could always have a fine print version of the rule which explains that maintaining multiple accounts in a manner that effects fair play is forbidden.  

Don't play chess when you're drunk/high/sleep deprived if it bothers you. It's a simple decision to make.

Alcohol takes away the performance...I lost many points on wine and whiskey...still it is just a game

Just open a "drunken" account and don't tell them you've got two.

Funnest reason I've heard yet for dup accounts but sadly the answer is still just one account. Maybe while drunk go into live and watch a few master's games but I wouldn't use the chat you could get into trouble  LOL

Simple solution for the author of the OP:   STOP DRINKING!

Throw away the Vodka!  Throw away the Wild Turkey!  Throw away the Beer!  And get out the Kool-Aid!  I recommend the Lemon-Lime flavor!

Oh, and if you are ever high, we need to report you to the police!  Getting high off drugs is illegal!

There's another option, which people forgot to mention:

D) Play rated games when you're drunken anyway. Lose rating points. 

Not a bad option, when you really consider it.