That would explain why I could maintain a 2000 rating for a short while on my old account: The correspondence rating is heavily inflated here. You might as well reset it.
I'm playing tight now against 4 and 1 Dan players. It should help. 😛
"tight" interesting typo... 🫢
And another one:
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146 points cette fois.
❝146 points cette fois.❞
Why did I write this in French? 🤔
@H4CH3 timing out made me "earn" 146 totally undeserved points. And there's nothing we can do to ensure that a started game will go to its end...
@ladyontheshogiboard i mean this might be just me, but technically your points are deserved. it's the opponent's own fault that they forgot to check lishogi and ended up losing. in the words of a chess.com forum user (will postlink here if i find it), the clock is a piece.
still, that's just my opinion
@wr4th0fsh4dow I know but in fact it's not much of a punishment for the player that timed out: @h4ch3 lost only 15 points. The amount of points should be the same for both: -15 for them, +15 for me. Not more. Or -146 for them and +146 for me. 😛
Eh, I don't believe that anyone who times out in these games actually cares about the rating points. They seem to have the value as a real-world currency which suffers from hyperinflation. You wouldn't care if you lost a million Zimbabwean dollars, for example, because the value is purely symbolic.
Points are not currency; they are just... points. 🙂
And real-life currency is just worthless scrap metal and colorful strips of paper. But losing a 'colorful paper strip' will still make me sad, because its worth is real. Likewise, if I lose rating points at lishogi, it hurts me like getting cut with a blade. Both values, money and Lishogi rating points, only gain recognition by its owner, and for someone like me, who has no other interest besides Shogi, I equate my rating to my personal self-worth. If I don't succeed at Shogi, I fail at my most intimate core 'Raison d'être'. I chose this French term, because I know you're French and it fits very nicely. If I lose at Shogi, I hate myself, because in my mind, Shogi is like a mirror of my self-worth.