Accidentally played rated chess games

Hi everyone,

I accidentally just played about 5 rated blitz games. I didn't realize they were rated until... It was too late. Is there a way for chess.com to return my rating to what it previously was (1337)? I had kept it at that value for many years, as it was my intention to keep it at that value permanently and to always play unrated games.

Silly V3 tricked me into thinking these were unrated games!

This alone is the reason I'm posting in pdela's new chess.com thread (even though I posted there before this happened).

Nope.

Also, my rating rose almost 180 points. I wanted it to be lower than it is now. It took me a long time to hit that 1337 way back when.

Just lose some games, lol.

I don't want to purposely sandbag. Plus it would take a while to get it to EXACTLY 1337. I don't have that much time in a day (especially with all the posting I do).

Looks like I'll have to sue chess.com now. I also accept settlement checks.

Well said, spawkle, well said.

Please give me a hand here, moderators / staff. And I don't mean a picture or photo of a hand (something I'm sure I've done before).

Just curious to know what sentimental value 1337 has to you.

It was numerical proof that I was an elite player.

It's not like it's divisible by 42 or anything ...

1337/42 = 42. Trust me, I used to do this for a living. It all started when I typed my phone number into an old school calculator, and shortly later, 4377 (and turning the calculator upside down). It wasn't too much later that I discovered what subtracting 3000 could do...

7734* Excuse the typo and ignore my second sentence. I dun goof'd.

Even Crowley never thought of upside down reading

Um, I retract my question.

have you considered getting good?

Who cares? It's just a stupid online number that means absolutely nothing.

Well, unfortunately, some players think your online rating means something.

One day my son played a few rated games on my account. I did not realize this until sometime later. And have since then been attacked several times as to not knowing much about chess because of that low published rating [1600+]

Chess.com would not delete my rating.

Everything means something. But what?

But I wanted to be rated lower. I'm not a 1500+ player at heart, I'm a 1337 player. Numbers have always meant a lot to me. My life has been defined by numbers, ever since I was born (although I'm quite suspicious that I was actually bought at a Walmart with a very faulty return policy). In fact, if you break things down, all lives can be defined by a complex string of numbers. Don't underestimate their power. Especially 1337 (and 42 (and in the case of a few special people, 27 (and in the case of Jim Carrey, 23 (and in the case of the number of parentheses in this sentence, 4)))).

Also notice that 23 + 27 - 4*2 numbers that we added together = 50-8 = 42.

Also notice that 13 + 37 = 50. Refer to above calculation.

Also notice that 1+3+37 = 41. How many numbers is 1337? 1. So 41 + 1 = 42.

Also notice that 1 + 33 + 7 = 41. Refer to above calculation.

It all fits together, my friends. There is always a pattern, a reason, for numbers, even if it's forced (unlike mine, which are obviously not forced).