I've not had this experience (that I've noticed) but I'm not very skilled myself so probably not skilled enough to notice sudden better play later in a game.
You're comments just made me wonder what would happen if after every game both players are able to give each other either a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down for sportsmanship. Visible stats for a player would be both the thumbs-up rate he receives as well as the thumbs-up rate he gives out. That second figure would discourage (though not stop) bad losers from thumbing down their opponent out of spite.
Is that something which might work or would it create it's own problems?
I cannot stand it anymore! I play a game of chess and I'm winning in material and position straight through the midgame, then my opponent doesn't move for ten hours!?! I start a new game with someone else out of sheer bordem then, the other player decides to move and proceeds to kick my butt and that would be fine too but, the opponent doesn't make one mistake!?! C'mon, I just thoroughly kicked your butt through 2/3 of the game, then after a long period of time, you don't make a mistake at all!?! Then win with some crazy unforeseen combination of checks until mate!?! That is crap! I think the pause in the game is the opponent putting all of the positions into a computer to help them salvage a game they were losing. Has anyone experienced this? If your playing chess, cheating is not going to help you get better. Study some tactics or read a damn book, but stop messing with my rating because of you stupid ego! Please comment, good or bad lets hear it!
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