At the moment, people don't berserk until their first move (where they can see their opponent's rating)
I'm not sure how many people berserk every game no matter what
If you pair all the berserking players together then that means they are all playing the same time control, just a different time control to everyone else in the tournament
#7 #8 yes, i do say "berserking is sandbagging" with tongue in cheek. but there is a point, of course.
obviously, berserking is going to lower your rating performance. it might cost between 100 to 400 performance, depending on how good you are under time pressure and on the time control (berserking bullet is "more costly").
so, in that sense, disallowing berserk for U2000 etc tournaments was a great move. now, how bad is it for the rating system for people to berserk and then not berserk later?
i play the lichess marathons by berserking 100% and at the end of them i'm about 150-200 points underrated. sucks to who's going to play me after that... but it's not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
Is playing blindfold sandbagging?
I suppose it is not sandbagging because it is somehow allowed on Lichess.
Actually i hope that developers are most likely to remove blindfold rated games here,but allow it in casual games.
Is playing on your phone while driving to work instead of playing in front of a computer sandbagging?
I was thinking that giving time to your opponents is sandbagging
It's dangerous to be on the phone whilst driving
Is playing on a trackpad instead of with a mouse sandbagging? Sandbagging is about intent whether it is measurable or not. as long as someone is trying to win they shouldn't be considered sandbagging.
yes, that is the moderation's stance on it. of course, nobody is going to get marked just for berserking for the fun of it.
however, it has happened in the past that berserking a lot was actually intentionally used as a means of lowering one's rating as part of some "greater scheme". most commonly, that was done as a subtle way to lower one's rating to play on rating restricted tournaments, but sometimes there were also other "interesting" reasons..
One could argue that the different time controls that still reward to the same rating break the system, both in real life and online chess.
E.g; one 1800 who plays only 10.00 minute games and one 1800 who plays only 20.00 minute games.
