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firstsecon

So my Fresh account - Tired  account tactic is actually a good tactic to win points, right?

Typewriter44
firstsecon wrote:

So my Fresh - Tired  accounts tactic is actually a good tactic to win points, right?

I have no idea what you are talking about. 

firstsecon
Typewriter44 wrote:
firstsecon wrote:

So my Fresh - Tired  accounts tactic is actually a good tactic to win points, right?

I have no idea what you are talking about. 

well...my comments under various acconts used to describe this illegal move of mine were deleted along with some topics i did ,Some people allowed my comments as i explained that i used these accounts only to understand the pairing system and get more points in a short time.

MY tactic was described in several topics like this one which stayed because it was quoted by someone else:

"freshacc wrote:

You need no special lesson below 1200 league .Just  make two accounts: call them one the "Fresh" account and the other a "Tired" account. Use the Tired account everyday , playing again and again for countless hours until you drop dead, learn whatever you think you can learn. Use the Fresh account when you are fresh, focussed and ready to win.That's usually one or two hours in a day.Stop using the Fresh account whenever you feel tired or you start losing.If you lost more than 2 games in a raw with the Fresh account abandon the Fresh account and make another whenever you feel ready to win. The first 5 games that you win in a new account get you an insane amount of points getting you to 1500 league in just first 5 games. The points you win or lose gradually vanish away with every game until you get no more than 7 points for a win after your 50th game .Then you fight for your life keeping indefinitely that account in the last league you were caught because the site is going to choose similar value opponents fronm more than a million guys outhere, many of them being trapped the same way you were in a league or another.Don't mind about the truth of it. It's simple statistics.If you never went to school then you can watch some math concepts on you-tube . Keep your spirit high and believe you're the best! Cheat as much as you can as cheaters are everywhere , in all leagues. Learn how to cheat yourself, don't hate the ones who cheat you! They all do it one way or another! No matter how good you are there's always a cheater smarter than you. Although i'm probabbly the only one at this moment  teaching you openly illegal stuff for this site's rules, be mindfull that many others are using more accounts for a long time, they just kept quiet on it. You'll see the difference between the two accounts in no more than a month! It might be possible in the future for the site to find a way to solve these problems, i have no idea about that.Until then  learn as much as you can by yourself .There are free lessons on you-tube.You don't need to pay a dime for them, except your internet traffic"

Under " freshacc" account  it took me 10 games to get to 1100 league and i stayed there for 2 days continuously after more than a hundred games.

With this account , let's call it the "tired " account , i'm in the 900 league, but after i've seen how the system works i realized that equal value opponents can be met in all leagues so i don't mind the points i get.

firstsecon

my "teaching" obviously is not in the interest of those teaching beaginners some chess lessons to get some money, so i was reported for breaching the site's rules, but i made my intentions very clear from the beginning.I don't mind if they close this account too...I can get quicker to 1100 level with a new account happy.png

Typewriter44

well with the way glicko works, a 900 strength is equally likely to go to 1100 on a new account as they are to go to 700 on a new account. What you are doing is both against chess.com's policies and terms (thus against the law) and stupid, because no matter what you do to inflate your rating you are still 900 strength, trying to cheat to make it to 1100 will not make you any better.

firstsecon

I'm nor 1100 or 900...i'm whatever the last  level i get stuck with for an entire day...It takes me 1...2 days  to get over one league, sometimes more than 100 consecutive games ...I was 800 for an entire month and i didn't understand why i can't progress over that, but the 800 level is where all the new players  entries are so you get the most competitors there... Many of them are very good chess players just never used chess.com or just made new accounts so when you fight an "800" player you have great chances to fight a 1500 or even 200 player .It's just that his account is new. Because i have  lost the first games and i got down to 600 ,  it took me an entire month to get back to 800 just because most of the entries are there so most of the new chess players, being them good or bad are there, around the 800 league. Many of them don't know how the system works so they fight for their life just because they lost too many of the first  5 games... I made other accounts and in just one day i was 1000 with the second account for a full day, 1000 with a third account and stayed there one full gaming day and 1100 with a fith account, i think...which i could keep there for two days until my account was blocked... i got even to 1199 and had all the chances to get to 1200 level if the internet link wouldn't go down one day as i was winning the first 4 consecutive games ... and here's the proof : i was clearly winning that game, but it was funny enough that although the internet link was down and the game never took place , the opponent which was quite a weak one got straight to 1377 points from 1200, because he had a new account too so it was one of his first games too and the site saw my link down as an abandonment or something like that, but it was clear i was on red , while if you look down on the right handside of the printscreen you see that i was connected so i didn't disconnect .I wouldn't even have a reason to do it as i was on the right path to winning and get straight to 1300 league... I know from experience that i wouldn't stay there too much as the 1200 league is better than me...i had about 8 accounts in total to understand that though happy.png

Typewriter44

You can choose which accounts you play, if you want to. Use the open seeks graph and make your settings to hide variants, set it to 10 minutes, infinite rating in each direction, then wait. You can choose which opponents you face by hovering over the dots that pop up. If you want to face that opponent, just click the dot. No need for spamming accounts 

firstsecon

i'm with this account and will stay because i find enough good opponents that beat me here too...i don't think i have other accounts opened right now.I already drew my conclusions and i try to enjoy chess... I don't think i understand your technique...i'm new here, just 7 weeks , i didn't explore this site too much. I just tried to get over my frustrations after the first month i used to fight in the the 600...800 league through understanding where they come from and seeing others in my position too . In the end i like "randomness" happy.png

Typewriter44

I have no 'technique', I am just saying if you don't want to face new players at exactly 800, you don't have to.

firstsecon

So...because i am still "fresh"...i got back to 1000 league a few minutes ago...i could guarantee that if i had the time i'd be back in the 1100 in a matter of one...two days...so you can freely analyze my games and my opponents... getting in the 1200 league would require some chess strategies lessons i could probably get here or  on youtube, but my regular job isn't giving me the luxury to lose all my time here .As i said in other topics i didn't play chess for 30 years before  a few months ago when i started to play on facebook  and i'm not a a brilliant guy or a genious in anything  so if i can do it , you can do it too, with no special lessons up to 1200 level.

Typewriter44

frankly I'm not so sure I want to go to the 1200 level

firstsecon

i see you're 1909...so i can understand whyhappy.png

stefanhaag7

Try to slow down and be calm. After all it's a game and games are for fun....Most of us  know that they never  will never be  a Hikaru, a Carlsen or a  really special chess player. So treat chess as an exciting freetime activity. Get Lucaschess and play and win against Steven...a weak computer engine.  Play at least 10 minutes or 15+10 against your opponentes . And be prepared that there are many cheaters on chess.com and many low rated players who are in fact very good players who crush you. Read a good book. For example "Keep it simple D4" by Christoph Sielecki. Solve puzzles, play puzzle rush. Look at good games, analyze your own games. Losing is a part of life....I played some good chess games I am proud of and I played countless rotten games... I  blunder like a beginner and sometimes I make excellent moves.  I am 1600 on Lichess...on chess.com I played some rotten games and have dropped under 1000....I am a PATZER....so what ? I keep trying......bye..

firstsecon

Typewriter44 wrote:

I have no 'technique', I am just saying if you don't want to face new players at exactly 800, you don't have to.

So i'm back in the 900 league as i played several games in a very tired shape yesterday , they send me again hordes of players with up to  30 points less than me, many of them weak players, others not too brilliant so to keep balance but just to keep you around 950 for a whole day   and this is what chess.com think about "giving me a chance"  to win more points, fighting a pro in desguise that was once in the 1300 league while with this last account i never got to at least 1100 points... Honestly, cross your heart and  tell me that the automatic pairing system it's not rigged!

Princess_San
SirColinTheKnight wrote:
@KetoOn1963 If you have the knowledge I believe you’re only limited by how fast your brain can process, and I know my brain can get adjusted to blitz. I don’t really see where the daily game comes in.

It's a popular but antiquated belief that only longer time controls allow you to improve.

Most of us younger generations learn by watching Youtube videos and playing Blitz, that's how I did it too. Nobody hires a classical coach anymore unless they really want to pursue a career in tournament level play.

Your progress has only very little to do with the type of chess you play and much more with how much time you actually invest in studying openings, tactics and sequences. That's where the money is.

firstsecon

By now, for  25th of june, at 5.48pm Greenwich  i had 24 games .I had 6 games with opponents rated 10...20 points more than me and 18 games with opponents rated 10...50 points lower than me... which makes again for the fact that i can lose more points than i can win as you win 9 points for a win with a better opponent and win 7 points against a lower points opponent while you can lose 9 points for 18 times and 7 points for 6 times... The same unbalanced pairing so that you can stay forever in your damn place...there's no wonder that some barely got 1500 level in 7 years of playing here under one account....

Typewriter44

You have a better chance of beating lower rated players, that is why you get less points for it.

Princess_San

I can tell from your games that you are having trouble in the opening a lot. You have to sit down and really study at least 20 moves into your fav openings.

vatj0

Forget about your rating, focus instead on trying to play better - analyse your games, especially the ones you lose and you should be able to figure out why you keep falling into pins and skewers and other traps. After you do this for a while you should improve and the rating will come eventually but it will take a lot of work and as others have said play rapid, 15/10 as minimum time control because its going to teach you a lot more than playing blitz; play blitz when you have reached some kind of competence but forget about it right now.

firstsecon
Typewriter44 wrote:

You have a better chance of beating lower rated players, that is why you get less points for it.

the lower rated  opponents are lower by very few points and might be just as I am , reckless guys that lose games just by not trying to give all their best while obviously we're not professionals at playing chess by any mean...mathematically speaking is a "system of a down"...