Sandbagging is a real problem at 1500

im just playing bad lmao i lost to a 1200 a few weeks ago in a tournament game

I lost to a 1200 also lmao don't worry about it if your focusing on stuff like school or work too much youl play worse maybe due to stress or anxiety if your stressed about it (not that that's bad )

Whenever I was stuck at 2000 I was actually pretty stressed (still am) but when I got a small break I jumped from 2000-2200

Rating is approximate. It's not uncommon for people to gain or lose 200 rating points.

Even if they really are 1800 strength, if you are 1500, you should win about 15% of games, so it's still competitive.

Some people are older, above 60 years it can be a challenge to hold the rating. There is one 82-year old IM in my region who's now rated 2050 FIDE.

Also note that if you abort a lot of games, you will land in the bad sports pool. And you will play against other people who abort a lot, who resign early (e.g. sandbaggers), who have suspicious win streaks etc. . So the best thing you can do is not abort games for random reasons, and focus on the chess instead.

Nowadays, people tilt so easily. Crazy, but over 50% of people who are like 1950-2000 blitz have been over 2100 before. As for your claims of sandbaggers at 1500, they are barely any. But who cares anyways? 1500 is a range which takes only one month to get out of.

Oh wait, you are 1400 rapid. You should be able to break that barrier even more easily.

@cR1NN

There's a guy who reached 2200 in march-april 2023 that tilted down to the 1800s and was once under 1700 in april 2024. https://www.chess.com/member/circle

I believe it

@cR1NN

Of course you believe what your friends say, Cirrin.

You can't tilt 300 points of elo that's ridiculous. The only way to do that is to not try for ages, which is basically sandbagging.

It's always funny to see someone who has tilted that much. They are so dumb that they don't know when to take a break.

That's not how that works I tilt all the time I'm just one of the lucky ones that recover almost instantly I almost tilted 300 points once but barely managed to stop it

Tilting is NOT sandbagging

The only thing that's sandbagging is actual sandbagging

Everyone tilts so much at chess it would be a shame if you tilted then you got banned for sandbagging

2 days old saying rip bcp are you an troll alt account ? Or just @cirrin

Btw I'm not talking about @cR1NN

@BigChessplayer665

RIP BCP refers to your recent tilt.

Ahh I'm back up to normal lol I tilt pretty quickly I also recover pretty quickly

Usually only for a day

2 days old saying rip bcp are you an troll alt account ? Or just @cirrin

Btw I'm not talking about @cR1NN

The real Cirrin must be jealous because the name got stolen from him, I should ask chess.com to give the name back.

The funny thing is, a 1500 and 1800 isn’t anywhere close of a gap that an amateur vs messi.

@cR1NN

True. Nowadays, it's completely normal to reach 1800 from 1500 in a month, Cirrin.

@cirrin is someone who thought my name was funny and decided to use it, I didn’t rlly care and we talked in private messages

"True. Nowadays, it's completely normal to reach 1800 from 1500 in a month."

I wouldn't say normal but it does happen pretty frequently maybe uncommon to medium rare 

+300 rating in a month isn’t normal, unless you’ve already been that high before.

@Cr1NN Bro thinks I don't know.

Yes, he is your friend who talks to you on discord.