How to go on an EPIC WINNING STREAK - totally legal

The good news is, anyone can do this, even a bad player like me:

Here's a Screenshot from my profile (check it yourself  if you like):

So Chess.com uses something called 'Skillbased Matchmaking'.

You have a Skill Number (your rating) and can adjust with what skill of people you want to get matched.

You can adjust that here in the settings:

So, let's say you have a score of 1000 and get matched with people -100 and +100 of your skill.

When you win a game (and you now have a 1010 score), that skill-window moves with your skill (and you get matched with people from 910 to 1110).

Now this system ALWAYS keeps the challenge high, because every time you win, you get matched with better players. It kinda frustrated me.

I adapted the following idea from the Online Shootergame 'Call of Duty' that also uses skillbased matchmaking. You can basically do this trick everywhere, where skillbased matchmaking is involved:

What you have to do is to TRASH YOUR STATS.

I dropped a few games I was loosing anyways, so that my score was around 800 or so.

Once you're low enough that you're confident you'll win 90% of the time, you start enough daily games to restore your score. Make it high time-limits (like 5 days per move).....

but with players that move very fast...

This brings you two advantages:

1. It speeds up the process
2. If you start loosing a game, you can put it aside and win a few more games first, extending the winning streak

(You're not stalling. A loosing game requires more thought than a winning one, maybe there's a chance turning things around - it happened to all of us that we got the winning idea by giving it the extra thought.)

Of course it's entirely up to you, I just wanted to demonstrate (on my profile for everyone to see) that it's entirely possible for a beginner like me to go on an impressive 🏆20+ winning streak🏆.

Enjoy.

p.s. As a side-effect, I also proved, that the system that was frustrating me, as it felt unjust to hammer every progress I made with a harder opponent, is a flawed system, and can be taken advantage of - all of that well within the rules.

Or there's my method, by which I've attained a winning streak of THOUSANDS of chess games. 

In some of those games, I've checkmated my opponent and won. In others, I lost or drew the game, and learned something from it that made me a better player. That's a strong win for me, too. So I've personally won EVERY GAME of chess I've ever played: Either by beating the opponent, or by learning and improving.

I think my method is far more satisfying than gaming the system to stroke your ego.

Which is why i have reported the OP.

classy

It is not sandbagging, as I clearly stated "dropped a few games I was loosing anyways".

You do not loose on purpose, that'd be stupid. Why would you do that? If you can win, always win, for your streak.

(I had to look up the sandbag. Didn't know there was a word for that. Enough people saw a flaw so it got a name. Like Heartbleed and Spectre. Again: You DO NOT loose on purpose, but rather drop a game you're unsure of winning. Basically lowering the 'resign' bar, that's all. Man, on a bad day I resign if I blunder a peace, not for a streak, just cause of a bad mood. That is hardly illegal, is it?)

Its "lose", not "loose"

Its Losing", not Loosing"

Thank you for clarifying that for all us.

Or just set your limits to -400 to -300. That will get you a winning steak too, and your opponents will be playing whom they want. Everyone happy.

Or just set your limits to -400 to -300. That will get you a winning steak too, and your opponents will be playing whom they want. Everyone happy.

I wish I could set tactics trainer to my own rating. It keeps giving me 2000+ rated problems that force me to think 5+ minutes for a 50% success rate rather than practice easier problems that are more likely to appear in my games.

Yea, for me it was a different story: Impatient as I was, I started non-vacation tournament. Went on a holiday, forgot about it, and there I was, lost all my games.

@ Chesteroo: You can set tactics difficulties, right here: https://www.chess.com/tactics/problems

Top right, there's 'Rating'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MeadbGQx18

Did you know you can win hundreds of games in a row by setting a computer to play like someone 500 points lower rated than yourself? It's even easier, gets you a longer winning run, and is just as pointless!

This is sandbagging, and is not legal.  We close account regularly for this.