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Do you have this same problem where a lot of times you are not playing online chess seriously at all? I guess it's some sort of defense mechanism. Losing hurts too much, it shatters my ego. So if I try some weird stuff for fun and then lose it's not as bad. But this also has negative impact on rating. Maybe the 2000 Elo players are just as good as 1000 Elo players but they are the ones who "try hard" so to speak? What do you think?
@vvaaaqqqqvvaqvvvvaqv said in #1:
>Maybe the 2000 Elo players are just as good as 1000 Elo players but they are the ones who "try hard" so to speak? What do you think?
as a 2000 elo player, I can confirm that 2000 elo players are just as good as 1000 elo players, but we still dont "try hard".
@rookiefromthehood said in #4:
> Lol HUGE difference between 1000 and 2000 elo.
1000 elo blunder pieces all the time
2000 elo blunder pieces all the time
see no difference
@Akarsh_2010 said in #5:
> 1000 elo blunder pieces all the time
> 2000 elo blunder pieces all the time
> see no difference
I don't see difference as well! :)
True. We all could be GMs if we cared but we're just not a bunch of nerds. Get a life, am I right?
@vvaaaqqqqvvaqvvvvaqv said in #1:
> Do you have this same problem where a lot of times you are not playing online chess seriously at all? I guess it's some sort of defense mechanism. Losing hurts too much, it shatters my ego. So if I try some weird stuff for fun and then lose it's not as bad. But this also has negative impact on rating. Maybe the 2000 Elo players are just as good as 1000 Elo players but they are the ones who "try hard" so to speak? What do you think?
as a 2200+ rating player i can confirm that 2000 guys dont tryhard and i also dont tryhard with lower rated i only tryhard if my opponent is titled player
@Akarsh_2010 said in #5:
> 1000 elo blunder pieces all the time
> 2000 elo blunder pieces all the time
> see no difference
i will tell difference in every mode
ultrabullet, hyperbullet and bullet
1000 just premove everything
2000 just plays a bit normal and mates 1000
3000 just plays like 700 elo and 7000 elo at the same time like they premove moves which have almost 0%chance to blunder and they give checks to opponents by knowing that its bad

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