What's the story with that. I'm 1500 rapid player, I defeat 1900+ on an obvious checkmate set up. I then check his history. He wins virtually all his games, the vast majority, and most them are 1200 - 1300 players.
So, that 1900+ is a fraud number in my opinion that represents nothing. What do you guys think?
in chess you have good and bad days you must know that if you play chess
The consistency and the average opponents rating express more than a simple number. In this case the person isn't a real 1900.
Oh, I have plenty of bad days. But this guys rank in Blitz and Rapid had the same dynamic 90% wins against vastly lower rated players. Just seemed odd to me.
o sorry i didn t know that
Sometime ago rating deviation would have made this difficult, as it used to increase the lower rated the opponents you played against, until your rating became provisional. Now it’s much easier to maintain minimum RD though even if you play vastly underrated opponents.
Does this phenomenon only exist in online play or otb as well?
lichess.org/@/Makiwot/perf/rapidThis is the player you meant, right? According to the statistics he has never beaten anyone higher than 1600 rating, so yeah, he doesn’t deserve any of it xD
Ouite a few of those. And once I stumbled across a guy with 30000 wins in rapid against Stockfish level 1.
for otb controversy of this ilk, check jude acers..........
