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ARandomPerson

I recently  signed up for a tourny that requires me to be <1200, I am currently at 1230, to prevent me from sandbagging, I am providing an open challenge to people who are way out of my leauge, hopfully it will be a learning experience.

Thematics are welcome, especially the grunfeld variations. I wish for my opponents to be rated well above me so I am more likely to lose (without sandbagging).

TadDude
ARandomPerson wrote:

I recently  signed up for a tourny that requires me to be <1200, I am currently at 1230, to prevent me from sandbagging, I am providing an open challenge to people who are way out of my leauge, hopfully it will be a learning experience.

Thematics are welcome, especially the grunfeld variations. I wish for my opponents to be rated well above me so I am more likely to lose (without sandbagging).


For official tournaments, if you are outside the specified rating range at the start of the tournament you will be moved to the correct tournament.

"Purposely" losing ratings points by playing higher rated players, to stay in the 1001-1200 range, seems to me to be sandbagging.

PrawnEatsPrawn

You might have to lose thirty-one games against "players well out of your league" to lose the thirty-one points required to enter said competition. Take this line of reasoning to some improbable but possible scenario.... what happens if you lose thirty in a row and start to win the thirty-first? (maybe a twenty or thirty point increase in your rating)... could get awkward.

For example, here's my end of it:

GAME DETAILS
Time Control: 3 days per move
I Play As: White
win: +0, draw: -11, loss: -21

What does your end say? (The challenge is only for illustrative purposes and should not be accepted).