Sudden Rating Spike

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Avatar of Carwasher_Superdrunk
So for several weeks I had been trying to get my blitz rating back up. I was 1500 blitz and had fallen to around 1320. This has been going on for a while, and I chalked it up to getting older. Then, chess.com dangled a 50% off summer sale on memberships. I wound up getting a diamond membership for one year. And just like that, within a few days, I was back to 1500. I should pause and say that there wasn't any real difference in my play. I didn't have time to do a bunch of endgame study, or learn new openings. I just played. My only conclusion is that my rating went up due to membership pairings. I noticed a definite difference in pairings from when I was a non member to a member. And frankly, that shouldn't be a factor, but apparently it is.
Avatar of Fr3nchToastCrunch

I've had random jumps in rating happen to me at least twice. The first was a small one from 650 to 700, and the second one was from 800 all the way to around 940. I seem to be experiencing a third one as well, though I'm not confident that I'll be able to ride it all the way to 1100.

Avatar of lmdennis

How is the pool supposedly different? This seems like a conspiracy theory?

Avatar of Alto_espresso

Hi

Avatar of MrChatty
Carwasher_Superdrunk wrote:
I noticed a definite difference in pairings from when I was a non member to a member. And frankly, that shouldn't be a factor, but apparently it is.

Will you cancel your membership now?