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nemsawi
nemsawi
May 26, 2020
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#1

since some days i started to join the Blitz Areana.

There is something i dont understand: very low rated players win the first places! It is not that i am a GM, or a good player but how can it be that a player: with best rating 584 played 88 games, Glicko-RD 48

just won a tournament with: 14 wins and just 1 Lose.

I would like to congratulate him but before i  do i would like to understand: 14 wins for me means he is a very good player, then why his rating after 88 matches that low?

notmtwain
notmtwain
May 26, 2020
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#2
nemsawi wrote:

since some days i started to join the Blitz Areana.

There is something i dont understand: very low rated players win the first places! It is not that i am a GM, or a good player but how can it be that a player: with best rating 584 played 88 games, Glicko-RD 48

just won a tournament with: 14 wins and just 1 Lose.

I would like to congratulate him but before i  do i would like to understand: 14 wins for me means he is a very good player, then why his rating after 88 matches that low?

It's not hard to understand. You looked at your opponent's record. He is obviously a sandbagger, with 48 one and two move losses out of those 88 games, since he joined yesterday.

You should have reported him immediately. It's not too late. You should report him now.

The reason guys like that can do what they do is that few people can be bothered to report.

Chess.com still hasn't figured out how to automatically detect and prevent that kind of behavior.

 

nemsawi
nemsawi
May 26, 2020
0
#3
notmtwain hat geschrieben:
nemsawi wrote:

since some days i started to join the Blitz Areana.

There is something i dont understand: very low rated players win the first places! It is not that i am a GM, or a good player but how can it be that a player: with best rating 584 played 88 games, Glicko-RD 48

just won a tournament with: 14 wins and just 1 Lose.

I would like to congratulate him but before i  do i would like to understand: 14 wins for me means he is a very good player, then why his rating after 88 matches that low?

It's not hard to understand. You looked at your opponent's record. He is obviously a sandbagger, with 48 one and two move losses out of those 88 games, since he joined yesterday.

You should have reported him immediately. It's not too late. You should report him now.

The reason guys like that can do what they do is that few people can be bothered to report.

Chess.com still hasn't figured out how to automatically detect and prevent that kind of behavior.

 

thank you for your answer.

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/30-blitz-208443

notmtwain
notmtwain
May 26, 2020
0
#4
nemsawi wrote:
notmtwain hat geschrieben:
nemsawi wrote:

since some days i started to join the Blitz Areana.

There is something i dont understand: very low rated players win the first places! It is not that i am a GM, or a good player but how can it be that a player: with best rating 584 played 88 games, Glicko-RD 48

just won a tournament with: 14 wins and just 1 Lose.

I would like to congratulate him but before i  do i would like to understand: 14 wins for me means he is a very good player, then why his rating after 88 matches that low?

It's not hard to understand. You looked at your opponent's record. He is obviously a sandbagger, with 48 one and two move losses out of those 88 games, since he joined yesterday.

You should have reported him immediately. It's not too late. You should report him now.

The reason guys like that can do what they do is that few people can be bothered to report.

Chess.com still hasn't figured out how to automatically detect and prevent that kind of behavior.

 

thank you for your answer.

 

Posting here is not what I meant. Use the Report button on your opponent's profile.

You aren't supposed to name people and make accusations in the forums. (You should certainly include that link in the report, however.)

nemsawi
nemsawi
May 26, 2020
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#5

i reported him, i wanted only to post the link

 

thanks

notmtwain
notmtwain
May 30, 2020
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#6
nemsawi wrote:

i reported him, i wanted only to post the link

 

thanks

Did you get a notification? I did.

Thoughtdancerschoice
Thoughtdancerschoice
May 31, 2020
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#7

I stopped playing these tournaments, they are loaded with bots (server accounts & private) there just to build ratings at your expense...  That may be too harsh... They do put the effort out there, i.e., to create a tournament, but with server bots the play is sort of like going to a cat house full of inflatable dolls... 

nemsawi
nemsawi
Jun 22, 2020
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#8
Thoughtdancerschoice hat geschrieben:

I stopped playing these tournaments, they are loaded with bots (server accounts & private) there just to build ratings at your expense...  That may be too harsh... They do put the effort out there, i.e., to create a tournament, but with server bots the play is sort of like going to a cat house full of inflatable dolls... 

 

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