Suddenly the 1400-1600 players in rapid became super strong.

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Kattron

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medelpad
Provably tilt
Yenorc

interesting

JBarryChess

Most likely a tilt, but I'm just a 800 player and I run into 800 players that seem to play way over their head. I've noticed at times it takes a few seconds for my opponent to do their opening move. Maybe setting up their engine? Makes me wonder.

wander_falke

chess.com is a cheatparty and it gets worse because of gen z and their mindset of never beeing told no

TipsyTrickster
Kattron wrote:

Has anyone notice this??? I just went from 1600 to 1450 and dropping.

They never blunder anything anymore. When I thought they blundered I mislooked.

And they always have strong attack moves in short amount of time that I would never think about.

I can't win anymore??

Someone made a post about it aswell https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/are-there-periods-when-its-harder-to-gain-rating

Could be some weird rating bug on chesscoms part