Laziness
What's your excuse not achieving 1000 rating?
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Jan 31, 2026
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It takes a lot of moving parts to line up nicely in order to "level up" - and it doesn't help that the U-1000 player pool is apparently polluted by smurfs these days ...
I suspect smurfs or other forms of cheating and they don't help. As I've commented elsewhere, unevenness is also often a feature of U-1000 players, certainly at the higher end. I won another game earlier today because on a more open board than in my last game, my opponent used his Queen to check my King and did not realise that his Queen was hanging. I had a Rook covering that file. (The game was pretty even up to that point but I think he was desperate for a breakthrough.)
I've met some U-1000 players who are pretty knowledgeable at the game. They just sometimes mis-calculate tactics, or get focused on the wrong part of the board (chasing material or positional gains in one area, when the position is calling for attention on a different part), or often they lose those painful pawn-race endings where the opponent somehow manages to be just one tempo faster ...
It takes a lot of moving parts to line up nicely in order to "level up" - and it doesn't help that the U-1000 player pools (online) are apparently polluted by smurfs these days ...