Last couple months, my blitz rating has steadily gone off a cliff. I was wondering if this was happening to other people too. I used to avoid the tournaments because you have so many people obviously sandbagging and trying to game the system, but now, it feels like good players keep getting pushed lower. Just lost to another sub 1200 player who played over 92% accurate in a tough game. It's constant. But yeah... losing tons and tons of points regularly to lower rated players who play like 1400-1500 players used to play.
There's an obvious explanation but we're probably not allowed to say what it is for some forum rule or other. If I had to guess how many people are trying to give themselves some kind of 'aid' to win games, not for every move, but somewhat? I think it's ridiculously high.
Actually, no... I'm sure it's just me, I'm sure it's normal for sub 1200 players to play mistake free chess without even any inaccuracies right?
I was fairly pleased by how I was playing, felt I was making progress and my rating was going up, and most importantly I was having fun. Now my rating has gone way back down and I keep losing. No fun.
I've been playing with the bots a lot, thinking that would be a good way to practice and I wonder if that could be a contributor. I win too easily against bots with 3 times my rating, so perhaps that's made me complacent?
What I know for sure is that I keep losing. No fun.