His rating was that high because he started at 1800 then won his first three in a row. He beat a 1745, 1805, 1661 in that order... He then went on to lose more than he won against 1600-1700's and his rating fell to 1511 by the end of that month.
First three wins:
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1677752148?username=hungryhungry
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1681559448?username=hungryhungry
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1684979633?username=hungryhungry
Then Three Losses In A Row:
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1687880606?username=hungryhungry
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1681559448?username=hungryhungry
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1696322570?username=hungryhungry
He didn't win again until he played a 1500s player:
https://www.chess.com/live/game/1696346758?username=hungryhungry
The funny thing about this whole thing, which somebody already alluded to, is that Tal considered himself a positional player... When I think of super sharp, tactical players Tal may be the most popular misnomer... I'd think of someone like Alexei Shirov (who studied Tal). Even then... It's not great to compare yourself to the greats when you're so much weaker than them... When you're playing under the GM level your "playing style" is really just a way to highlight your weaknesses.
So when you're saying, "I play like Tal"... You're probably really saying "I need to improve my positional and strategic play".
I personally feel more at home in slower games, so I'm working to improve my tactics and board vision... That doesn't mean that I play like Karpov... It just means that I'm not standing on even legs.
Even then... I REALLY think HungryHungry can be much stronger in a few years if he focuses heavily on trying to improve rather than sitting back and patting himself on the back.
I'd advocate spending more time training than talking about how great you are. lol
I'm not sure why you feel the need to belittle me. I apologized to you in a private message, I apologized to you on here. If you look at the posts at the start of the thread, people are telling me I'm too positional! People(not me) say I play like Tal because of the way I play, not because I am super tactical or super positional. I don't really want to make excuses because I don't have to, but the way you talk about me is different than everyone else in the thread. I sense legitimate malice in your constructive criticisms, as if you have a bone to pick with me. Can you tell me what that bone is and why you have one to pick?
Malice? lol
You're just a really good troll... I gave you real advice, but after seeing your older accounts I take back that I thought you'd rapidly improve.
You're not trying to really put in work. You're just trying to feel like you're better than you are..
Do yourself a favor, stop pretending you can correct various people & engines and just work at getting better... Look at MY tactics trainer... See how much freaking work I put in, just in the past two weeks.
You can call it malice, but I'm practicing what I'm preaching to you.
Less self-congratulations, more drills. Then when you hit some expert norms you can decide if you want to put yourself out in threads like this and draw unneeded criticism to yourself.
HungryHungry wrote:
Oh now this is getting good...
Neither account has a higher peak rating than the current account:
https://www.chess.com/member/JohnnySaysThankYou
https://www.chess.com/member/Guavaguy30
They actually show that he's gotten better over time and this is the best he's been so far... But, far more interesting is: Searching Guavaguy30
If you look at the Twitch profile you'll see he posts videos where he claims to be rated higher in DOTA than he actually is... This is just his thing.
He's a habitual ratings liar. lol
There are even Reddit threads about him lying about it while streaming:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2qqzj3/guavaguy30_goes_live_in_five/
They even say that he bought the account, lost then:"
"You just missed the ragequit. Chat was making fun of him, so he called them out and quit the game he was losing to play them in chess."
So welcome GuavaGuy30.
We're blessed to have such an esteemed DOTA player in our presence...