Internet Chess
Mar 7, 2023 14:33:02 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Mar 7, 2023 14:33:02 GMT -5
Ping Ponging
After years of playing chess on the Internet, I have concluded that it is much easier to make progress or to increase your chess rating in OTB play. Why? Well, because of the rampant and seemingly uncontrollable amount of cheating that goes on in Internet Chess.
You see, you might be making progress and all of a sudden you are paired with three cheaters. Down goes your rating once again as their computers unceremoniously mow you down easily as they do everyone else including very strong grandmasters. You work yourself up to the same rating you had before and the same garbage happens but worse. This time you are paired against five cheaters and lose five games and your rating plummets once again.
Now, needless to say, this can go on for decades if you stubbornly persist, and there are only two possibilities. You will either ping-pong back and forth between two respectable ratings, or else your rating will drop very low and you will stay their permanently pin-ponging a little bit up and down. Now, I left one chess server because each and every single time that I reached the rating of 1700, I was automatically paired with seemingly unbeatable, machine-like players unto my rating hit the 1500's again. This happened approx. four times and I decided I had enough and haven't played any more games there since.
So I started playing at another Internet Chess server. There I have held my rating in the 1900's. However, whenever I try to push on towards the 2000 rating, the same thing is happening once more. Suddenly, and seemingly on cue, machinelike opponents appear until I am reduced to a middle, or high 1800. Then as if on cue, things return to normal. Then when I reach the 1900's again, it kicks in once more and back down I go.
But it was even worse once at this other chess-server. There I had reached a rating of 1975 and dropped to 1700 and then games became almost impossible to win since every single opponent played like an unbeatable computer and I was only able to draw occasionally. Finally, this was threatening to lower me into the 1200's. So I cancelled my membership before I was dropped to maybe 300 or less.
In short, if you want a fair deal, you are not going to get it by playing Internet chess. Especially if you have a Latino surname. Then you have to worry about triggering a MAGA response from some MAGA fanatical administrator or one of his cronies maybe hell-bent on keeping you in what he or she considers your proper place.
You see, you might be making progress and all of a sudden you are paired with three cheaters. Down goes your rating once again as their computers unceremoniously mow you down easily as they do everyone else including very strong grandmasters. You work yourself up to the same rating you had before and the same garbage happens but worse. This time you are paired against five cheaters and lose five games and your rating plummets once again.
Now, needless to say, this can go on for decades if you stubbornly persist, and there are only two possibilities. You will either ping-pong back and forth between two respectable ratings, or else your rating will drop very low and you will stay their permanently pin-ponging a little bit up and down. Now, I left one chess server because each and every single time that I reached the rating of 1700, I was automatically paired with seemingly unbeatable, machine-like players unto my rating hit the 1500's again. This happened approx. four times and I decided I had enough and haven't played any more games there since.
So I started playing at another Internet Chess server. There I have held my rating in the 1900's. However, whenever I try to push on towards the 2000 rating, the same thing is happening once more. Suddenly, and seemingly on cue, machinelike opponents appear until I am reduced to a middle, or high 1800. Then as if on cue, things return to normal. Then when I reach the 1900's again, it kicks in once more and back down I go.
But it was even worse once at this other chess-server. There I had reached a rating of 1975 and dropped to 1700 and then games became almost impossible to win since every single opponent played like an unbeatable computer and I was only able to draw occasionally. Finally, this was threatening to lower me into the 1200's. So I cancelled my membership before I was dropped to maybe 300 or less.
In short, if you want a fair deal, you are not going to get it by playing Internet chess. Especially if you have a Latino surname. Then you have to worry about triggering a MAGA response from some MAGA fanatical administrator or one of his cronies maybe hell-bent on keeping you in what he or she considers your proper place.