A Special Award

Barring all of this being sarcasm, he's sandbagging which is an engineable and bannable offence. Mods!

I suppose that's a form of manipulation of players' scores, I hadn't thought of that. Maybe he's just a genius :)

By the way, I wasn't being sarcastic, Cynosure. I'm just a simple, ordinary bloke. I don't even UNDERSTAND sarcasm. Or irony. Or goldy. Or bronzy.

Well, a word to the wise - it's impossible to go from 1152 - 2000 in under 3.5 hours, unless you're:

a) playing below your real strength
b) play with computer assistance
c) the greatest savant at chess ever discovered.

Unfortunately, this was a case of a)...

On his profile it now suggests b)?

I think b) is used just in general cases of cheating as well as actually using an engine as a slap on the wrist.

Oh ok. I guess we'll see him on the new accounts roundabout in the next half hour then :D

This player is also etreemely special. He spent a boring six month to reach 2600.

This is the profile: http://en.lichess.org/@/MasterUbu/all