Player Who Plays to Intentionally Lose
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Yesterday, I played someone with a higher rating, who intentionally allowed me to take all his major, which allowed me to checkmate him or her rather easily. I checked their record afterward and they had a slew of consecutive losses again after having a respectable rating. My question is why would someone just throw a game? Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed the win, but that was perplexing and made no sense.
Are they like new playes who recently signed up
Cuz like if so, then they are probably new and dont know what the “rating” levels mean
blitz2009 wrote:
RubberSoul54 wrote:
Yesterday, I played someone with a higher rating, who intentionally allowed me to take all his major, which allowed me to checkmate him or her rather easily. I checked their record afterward and they had a slew of consecutive losses again after having a respectable rating. My question is why would someone just throw a game? Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed the win, but that was perplexing and made no sense.
probably a cheater trying to fool the system
Or a sandbagger
He or she has played over 600 hundred games. More wins than losses. Current rating is 802. Was as high as 946. Handed me every major piece on a platter and proceeded to lose many more games afterwards. No doubt it was intentional. Made no sense to me, but helped my rating. So maybe I shouldn’t complain. 😉
What was the username of that guy
RubberSoul54 wrote:
He or she has played over 600 hundred games. More wins than losses. Current rating is 802. Was as high as 946. Handed me every major piece on a platter and proceeded to lose many more games afterwards. No doubt it was intentional. Made no sense to me, but helped my rating. So maybe I shouldn’t complain. 😉
This is sandbagging and you should report it. It does help your rating but you still keep your rating points if the guy gets banned. However, he is impacting other players because he (who is probably like an 1000 strength player in an 800 rated account) will likely win against most 800's he plays against legitimately, lowering their rating.
Losing on purpose in order to lower one's rating is called sandbagging and is a form of cheating.
Having said that, his/her peak rating was 946, according to you, and the current one is 802. This is hardly a suspicious rating drop. Kind of standard rating variance. And for players at this level blundering a bunch of pieces and losing in a perplexing manner is not that uncommon.
Yes, it was definitely sandbagging. The person lost over 30 game in a row. Horrible record in the last 7 days, but recent won some games.
Historically, he or she has a decent winning percentage. Don’t know if it’s right to call out the name on a forum. But, it can easily be figured out by looking at my most recent games and checking profiles. Thanks.
Historically, he or she has a decent winning percentage. Don’t know if it’s right to call out the name on a forum. But, it can easily be figured out by looking at my most recent games and checking profiles. Thanks.
So what is the point of a sandbagger? Is it done to qualify for a tournament for only a certain rating range?
Wowwwww
Maybe they are wanting to do a 100 to GM speed run lol? 
“Maybe they are wanting to do a 100 to GM speed run lol? “
Indeed! 😂😂
Indeed! 😂😂
Can’t you just take the free win and move on?
