Some of your recent opponents are pretty strong; even I would lose easily!; btw your opening is bad, you don’t Challenge the center and violate chess principles.
My rating is tanking...
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So goldenduckhunter, i hear what you are saying. Are you suggesting that the vast majority of 1200 rated players know all the strong openings and principles of chess? That seems pretty unlikely. Many, many times i am dominating a game and then there is a miraculous change in momentum. I admit i am not good, but the thrashings i am taking at the ratings seem odd. Perhaps I am just getting worse.
Jan 3, 2022
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JodieToadie wrote:
Many, many times i am dominating a game and then there is a miraculous change in momentum. I admit i am not good, but the thrashings i am taking at the ratings seem odd. Perhaps I am just getting worse.
At lower club-level ratings (let's say under 1400, and definitely where I sit around 1000 rapid) games tend to be dominated by swings driven by one player catching a tactic that the other player has missed. Below 1000 or so these are one-move blunders, but even at higher ratings the blunders can be just overlooking a basic fork or pin or something. So yeah, when you lose, things will be going great until suddenly they're not. It's endemic to this level of play. (It also means that there's value in playing on if you are down, say, a queen or less in material. I know I win a surprising percentage of games where I'm down a rook at some point because I catch back up.)
Opening Principle is the easiest one. Control the center, knights before bishop. King safety, connect the rooks. Although your hypermodern approach is interesting you are not Aron Nimzowitsch. “KISS” i also follow this😁
I agree with you Paleobotanical, that USED to be the case. Not anymore. The swing is not a single piece. It’s seems much more than that more recently. There seems to be a LOT of really good players at 1200.
If you think about it, with the rise in popularity of chess, there are now more players. This could contribute to the rating "tanking" that you are experiencing.
That being said, as you said in the title, cheating discussions are not allowed in the main forums. If you ever think that someone is cheating, please report them. https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com
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Jan 3, 2022
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It seems that you have played a ton of games over the last week. I see 454 games in the last 7 days and you lost 227 points.
Were you playing that much because of the leagues? Perhaps you are trying too hard...
You did come in 1st in your Stone division with 1893 points for the week and moved up to Bronze. I made it to Bronze with about a third of your points and I know how much playing that took me. You must have been playing for four or five hours every day.
That one game against elricreborn, double bishop opening as black and you played it too aggressive, you should let him come to you, do more solid conservative moves, other than that wow they were playing strong for an 1130, so yeah sometimes nature is wild 😜 idk how to put it but people are getting better and some playing above their level. Think of this, all the high rated players were at one point low rates players, I remember the 120 1300 days
Jan 4, 2022
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JodieToadie wrote:
I agree with you Paleobotanical, that USED to be the case. Not anymore. The swing is not a single piece. It’s seems much more than that more recently. There seems to be a LOT of really good players at 1200.
I blamed single-move blunders for the problems of the under-1000 crowd, not for people at 1200. There, it's probably more about missing simple two- or three-move tactics.
JodieToadie wrote:
I agree with you Paleobotanical, that USED to be the case. Not anymore. The swing is not a single piece. It’s seems much more than that more recently. There seems to be a LOT of really good players at 1200.
If you lose several games in a row, stop playing or you will tilt a lot of points away.
So i have played over 18,000 games. My rating is tanking. Every game i play, i look at my opponent’s rating. Their rating overwhelmingly is tanking too. So what gives? Where are all the points going and to whom? I am currently being trashed by other opponents who have ratings at 1200. Like me they also ‘used’ to be 1500+ players. So what is the deal? Has everyone gotten better or am I now a worse player than when i started 20 years ago on Yahoo.com?