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This has happened multiple times. I start playing a game and my rating is pretty good.  And then all of a sudden the people I’m playing aren’t making stupid mistakes and my rating starts plummeting. I lose like 10 games in a row. It’s clear there are bots designed to make you want to pay for training. 

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mcerisano wrote:

This has happened multiple times. I start playing a game and my rating is pretty good. And then all of a sudden the people I’m playing aren’t making stupid mistakes and my rating starts plummeting. I lose like 10 games in a row. It’s clear there are bots designed to make you want to pay for training. 

As a wise man once said, "mad cuz bad".

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I guess that wasn’t you. 😂

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mcerisano wrote:

This has happened multiple times. I start playing a game and my rating is pretty good. And then all of a sudden the people I’m playing aren’t making stupid mistakes and my rating starts plummeting. I lose like 10 games in a row. It’s clear there are bots designed to make you want to pay for training.

No I have that happen all the time to me (minus the bots ) ,even without a membership it isn't the bots people just have ups and downs when you win more you usually get paired against higher rated players

Like I had at least a few times where I lost ten games in a row but that was my fault

When you lose more you get paired against lowerrated players (like after losing 50 elo ) and it becomes easier to win I doubt your opponents are making "no mistakes " your probably making the position easy for them to play

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I don’t think that’s it. I was hovering around 450 for a while. Win a few, lose a few. Then all of a sudden lose a bunch and now I’m 400. That doesn’t make sense.

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mcerisano wrote:

I don’t think that’s it. I was hovering around 450 for a while. Win a few, lose a few. Then all of a sudden lose a bunch and now I’m 400. That doesn’t make sense.

I hover around 2250 for a while then occasionally dip down to 2000-2100

Sometimes so go up to 2250-2300 occasionally then dip right back down when I tilt

People have ups and downs your peak rating probably won't stick for long (just try to reach it again tho don't focus on rating too much otherwise you might start tilting or worse )

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Becoming concerned about a rating drop of 50 points? I hope you are not serious. A drop of 50 points is virtually negligible. 

In Elo’s rating system, a player has a 50 percent chance of beating another player with the same rating. If you are rated 50 points higher than the other player, you have a 56 percent chance of winning. That is about the same advantage you have when you have the white pieces and have the first move. 

better to spend time studying some chess than spinning conspiracy theories.

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mcerisano wrote:

This has happened multiple times... I lose like 10 games in a row.

Welcome to the world of Bullet.

I recommend choosing a slower timer, where you can actually think more about your moves ...

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I'm actually best at bullet!

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mikewier wrote:

Becoming concerned about a rating drop of 50 points? I hope you are not serious. A drop of 50 points is virtually negligible.

In Elo’s rating system, a player has a 50 percent chance of beating another player with the same rating. If you are rated 50 points higher than the other player, you have a 56 percent chance of winning. That is about the same advantage you have when you have the white pieces and have the first move.

better to spend time studying some chess than spinning conspiracy theories.

Maybe you should stop whining about me. Don't you have better things to do?

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I noticed a pattern. I mentioned it. It is you who have decided to impose your opinion on all of us here. It is not wanted or appreciated.

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mcerisano wrote:

I noticed a pattern. I mentioned it. It is you who have decided to impose your opinion on all of us here. It is not wanted or appreciated.

But the pattern happens all the time to paying members to

So that sorta defeats the purpose in assuming that it's because you arnt paying chess.com

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Maybe it's just the fact that you are playing bullet and suck to much to actually be able to improve by playing it because lowereated players (unless playing really strong players) usually don't think or improve at all by playing bullet that is typically intermediates or rwaly raly fast thinkers that improve at bullet so you just get stuck at the same rating