@Catsuey7 said in #12:
> I know which games where I really blew it and when. I'm talking about the games that I'm blown out of the water, every move and the person has a rating of only 1280 and it is done in barely a minute and a half. I'm not playing a person of that rating. I'm playing a computer or a master. I know the difference. My mother was a national champion back in the day.
The great thing about a site like Lichess is that all your games are there for all to see. Only 88 games, 40 losses. So I glanced through those losses and found only 3 games where your opponent was rated below 1300.
Guess what...NONE of those games match the description you provided. YOU made serious blunders in all those games, and your opponents did as well. There was one game where the opponent made no computer-identified blunders, but several inaccuracies and mistakes. You just played worse.
Also, a 100 point rating difference is not all that significant. Ratings are just estimates, people have good days and bad days...getting blown off the board by someone rated 100 pts below you happens to all of us.
And finally, no one is saying cheating does not happen. Of course it does. But it's not nearly as common as you would believe.
> I know which games where I really blew it and when. I'm talking about the games that I'm blown out of the water, every move and the person has a rating of only 1280 and it is done in barely a minute and a half. I'm not playing a person of that rating. I'm playing a computer or a master. I know the difference. My mother was a national champion back in the day.
The great thing about a site like Lichess is that all your games are there for all to see. Only 88 games, 40 losses. So I glanced through those losses and found only 3 games where your opponent was rated below 1300.
Guess what...NONE of those games match the description you provided. YOU made serious blunders in all those games, and your opponents did as well. There was one game where the opponent made no computer-identified blunders, but several inaccuracies and mistakes. You just played worse.
Also, a 100 point rating difference is not all that significant. Ratings are just estimates, people have good days and bad days...getting blown off the board by someone rated 100 pts below you happens to all of us.
And finally, no one is saying cheating does not happen. Of course it does. But it's not nearly as common as you would believe.
