Why are speedruns even allowed?
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Welcome to the town of complaining about speed runners. Population: YOU..
Oct 28, 2021
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#202
If the speed runner's opponents do not know they are playing a speed runner, it is dishonest and should not be allowed (whether rating points are later given back is irrelevant). If, however, it is done transparently with everyone involved knowing what's going on and participating voluntarily, then, of course, there's no issue with it whatsoever.
you have 820 blitz games. I am going to guess exactly zero have been against speed runners.
If you played one, you didn’t even know. You just lost, maybe lost the next couple of games too, then you won 3 in a row.
This is really silly. Play the game.
If you played one, you didn’t even know. You just lost, maybe lost the next couple of games too, then you won 3 in a row.
This is really silly. Play the game.
Oct 28, 2021
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#204
How many games I have played and how many of them were against speed runners is completely irrelevant. Dishonesty is dishonesty and there's nothing silly about it.
Well now complaint town has a population of 2.
Maybe you guys could form a league.
If I got clobbered by someone and found it was Naroditsky on a speed run. I’d be more interested in finding out which channel so I can go watch myself up against a GM.
You guys aren’t in it for the competition, it’s all about the precious number that means absolutely nothing.
I am going to bet neither of you have been in otb tournaments. Wait till you get paired up against someone 300 points above you in a 4 hour classical game.
Maybe you guys could form a league.
If I got clobbered by someone and found it was Naroditsky on a speed run. I’d be more interested in finding out which channel so I can go watch myself up against a GM.
You guys aren’t in it for the competition, it’s all about the precious number that means absolutely nothing.
I am going to bet neither of you have been in otb tournaments. Wait till you get paired up against someone 300 points above you in a 4 hour classical game.
Oct 28, 2021
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#206
When I play in an OTB tournament (and I do play in those), I know precisely whom I play, and if my opponent is 400 points above me, I know it.
And I am not complaining, just giving my opinion.
“Using one’s rating to dismiss their arguments”?
What does this even mean?
What does this even mean?
Silence on what you mean by “Using rating to dismiss someone’s argument”
That makes you a troll. A dishonest one.
That makes you a troll. A dishonest one.
I should have known, because no real person would be complaining so much about a non-problem.
Also just want to state, speedrunning is NOT allowed for normal people.
I paid money before to play GM in a simul, now you can do it for free.
I played US champ Nakamura. One of the cool things about chess as a sport is an ordinary player like me can do that.
Try getting a 1v1 against LeBron James.
Few other sports are set up to allow this sort of thing. But, I guess people will still find a way to complain.
I am sure if they found a cure for cancer, someone would complain about it!
I played US champ Nakamura. One of the cool things about chess as a sport is an ordinary player like me can do that.
Try getting a 1v1 against LeBron James.
Few other sports are set up to allow this sort of thing. But, I guess people will still find a way to complain.
I am sure if they found a cure for cancer, someone would complain about it!
not responding to you until you explain what you mean by “using one’s rating to dismiss arguments”
And i if you don’t have an explanation, maybe you should delete your account
Oct 28, 2021
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#215
@Ubik42
Playing against stronger players is not the issue. You played against GM's, very happy for you. I, too, played against titled players (in a simul and one-on-one). When I did it, I knowingly chose to do it.
PS: Bringing a cure for cancer into this discussion is beyond moronic.
Well thanks Coolout.
it’s not a dismissal by rating, it means in otb you will routinely get matched against someone with a big strength disparity in a long game, not a throwaway blitz. It is the nature of swiss tournaments.
In the first round of a swiss, the top half
gets paired against the bottom half. If you are in the middle of the pack your first game will be against the highest rated player.
I got posted against a local life master several times in round 1 or 2.
I liked those games, I played some of my best chess. And lost.
it’s not a dismissal by rating, it means in otb you will routinely get matched against someone with a big strength disparity in a long game, not a throwaway blitz. It is the nature of swiss tournaments.
In the first round of a swiss, the top half
gets paired against the bottom half. If you are in the middle of the pack your first game will be against the highest rated player.
I got posted against a local life master several times in round 1 or 2.
I liked those games, I played some of my best chess. And lost.
anti Mustard. 1500 blitz games. Do you have one in that number of games that was against a speed runner that you would care to show us?
I wish I knew how to post games, I’d die my Nakamura game. It was actually very cool.
Oct 28, 2021
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#219
Just as I said in one of my previous posts, it is totally irrelevant whether I played against speed runners or not.