@eniolw I just saw your comment on the tournament yesterday... Please it's disheartening.. it's hurts so bad when accused especially since i can't prove my innocence in this case..
Don't throw out accusations like that without proof too..I got lucky and drew a game with you means I'm playing unfairly??? Come on..
For whatever it's worth, I don't know that there's any active chess players around me here, my friends who play chess are even under 1000 and we're not even close...
Lastly, sandbagging is the last thing I'll do as far as chess is concerned. My biggest dream is to see my elo 2000+, so sandbag over what???
You should ask yourself, if I even want to cheat won't I just use engine assistance and top my category?
I have NEVER given my phone to any player to help me in these tournaments, I have NEVER sandbagged, and I have NEVER used engine assistance.
Please mind your words, it hurts!!
I didn't say you were cheating. I know of players of different strength who keep shared accounts, so I got some bad experience already. Besides them, I had never seen a 1700 player with such a resilience as yours in that game. It's just very unusual.
I'll take that as a compliment.
I'm not blaming you for having suspicions, it's a very human thing there's also a player I've had in mind for quite sometime now I suspected were sandbagging but I did some research and found out I was awfully wrong as it isn't really easy to cross certain elo thresholds. So I never gave voice to my suspicion as I simply had no evidence.
While it's unfortunate that there might be some guilty of those crime, it's just a bitter pill we have to swallow and not let it ruin the entire experience.
I'm particularly a fan of yours even though I haven't mentioned it before..
First I've learned quite a few things from the games we've played together.. there's this game where I played so badly but still ended up having a +1 advantage but I ended up resigning without fully assessing the position, I only found out during my review process the next day.
https://lichess.org/MBGwIQ9g/black#63
Then there's another where I learnt a tactic that involved sacrificing your knight which lead to a very quick mate... A 1900 tried to use it against me few days after we played and I just laughed as I knew right away how to respond.
https://lichess.org/quwrcU91#25
https://lichess.org/ojV2N1VTS36u
I'll go search for those games and put the link here so you know I'm not making things up.
So yeah, you acknowledging my resilience? I'll take that as a compliment.
Peace✌️