this is GENUINELY insane

guy playing in djerba international chess festival in tunisia one of the biggest and most important in the year nationally absolutely bombing elo💔😭

The Tunisian Chess Federation is probably an isolated rating pool - meaning that they would mostly play against each other, not against outsiders - so their ratings might be badly askew compared to the typical FIDE ratings.

He is a member here with a 2481 blitz rating. He played yesterday.

https://www.chess.com/member/lebig20

He was rated 19th out of 20 players. He played in the open A section of the tournament with only one other Tunisian amongst the 20 players. He could have played in the B section with all the other Tunisians. He has had a tough tournament but the tournament is not over. He has rounds today and tomorrow.

https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1332621.aspx?art=1

Let's be kind and wish him a good game.

https://www.chess.com/events/info/djerba-international-chess-festival-2026

@gmlightning2200 see look you can tilt otb

yeah i know but that’s incredibly hard to do unintentionally

ok sure

and who are you even referencing?

OMG that IS insane, that is the most INSANE thing I have EVER seen, like EVER. OMG, wait til I tell the children how insane that is, my flabber is gasted, that's HOW insane it is, it's the most INSANE thing I've seen since I heard Snails can breath through their feet OMG even more insane then the time I went cage diving with sharks OMFG I just do not believe how insane that opening post story is OMG

I mean it is one of the worst tournament perfs I've ever seen from a titled player. It's pretty wild

I'm sure he'll get his rating back though seems good enough for it

I don't think it's so bad. I would bet that it happens every week for many junior players.

If you look at the guy’s FIDE page, he has had several up performances larger than this down performance.

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5516200/calculations

Idk 1300 is shocking. I'm lower rated than him and my lowest tournament perf in the last year was 1700

HOW THE HELL DO YOU EARN 213 ELO IN A MONTH?

It was from 18 games in a month 💀

He drew his game this today

i know but still an 88-point deficit and still 1700 performance rating

why warning?

Wow jumped up to a 1700 perf

0.5/8 being 1700 is wild. I need to play more 2200s lol

imagine if bro went 0/9 THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT🥀 i would be betting 1000$ 700 elo perf

Back in 1903 at the Monte Carlo Masters Chess Tournament, Colonel Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau lost all 26 of his games. All of them.

He went zero-for-26.