When you create a seek, you can use the Custom Challenge option to change your range. Also, in Settings > Live Chess you can set your default Outgoing seek settings.
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ipvan99 wrote:
Is there a way to limit how low of a player that you play? The default seems to be 200 points.
There's a REALLY big dip in the quality of chess below 1880 in 3 minute games. It's not even chess at a certain point. Most players ~1825 or lower don't even think. They just do whatever is front of their face. They just trade pieces and hope to get lucky. If a check is available, they instantly take it 100% of the time. It's not even fun. Literally no thought goes into it. It's not that they can't win playing a trade-pieces-and-hope-to-get-lucky strategy. It's that it's mindlessly boring. Some players will literally go 3 moves out of their way to trade pieces. They don't even try to gain an advantage.
I wouldn't mind waiting 10-15 seconds (or more) for a game to start. It doesn't have to be an instant start like it usually is. I don't mind waiting for an evenly ranked player. I hate aborting games before they start, but playing someone 180 points lower is not enjoyable. It's a waste of time. Is there any way to adjust it and set a higher floor?
With your current 1912 blitz rating, you believe that you might have to play players rated as low as 1712? I can see that out of the 1250 games you played in August, you faced 8 rated 1712 and under.
The horror.
Of course, your own rating was 1803 just last week, so when you say that most players rated 1825 and below don't think, you would exclude yourself.
/ Trying to figure out the real reason for you to slam lower rated players
/ When your rating fell that low, did you think you might have had some sort of brain cloud?
Is there a way to limit how low of a player that you play? The default seems to be 200 points.
There's a REALLY big dip in the quality of chess below 1880 in 3 minute games. It's not even chess at a certain point. Most players ~1825 or lower don't even think. They just do whatever is front of their face. They just trade pieces and hope to get lucky. If a check is available, they instantly take it 100% of the time. It's not even fun. Literally no thought goes into it. It's not that they can't win playing a trade-pieces-and-hope-to-get-lucky strategy. It's that it's mindlessly boring. Some players will literally go 3 moves out of their way to trade pieces. They don't even try to gain an advantage.
I wouldn't mind waiting 10-15 seconds (or more) for a game to start. It doesn't have to be an instant start like it usually is. I don't mind waiting for an evenly ranked player. I hate aborting games before they start, but playing someone 180 points lower is not enjoyable. It's a waste of time. Is there any way to adjust it and set a higher floor?