This may be true but it's certainly not all he's doing. E.g. when he chucked a game against me it was just after he resigned one in a winning position. But subsequently he has won many (and deliberately lost many) without getting anywhere near back to 1500.PeterFinn wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:59 pmMy suspicion is that this user has been deliberately losing games in order to get back to the 1500 starting rating in order to do a speedrun back up to his usual rating. He has got back down to 1500 twice only to quickly start winning again back up to his usual standard.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:26 pmI don't really understand this, the player has zero tournament points, so why do we think he is choosing to lose so many games in a row?
The concept of a chess speedrun has been popularised by the likes of Nakamura where he played games against users on chess.com all the way from the starting rating of 1200 up to 3000.
And the joy of winning those games? Mine was not a win in a few moves, but picking up all his pieces one after the other in the space of a half-dozen moves or so before he threw in the towel - I can't say that brought me much joy.
As for whether s/he should just be ignored. Well maybe but when there's the perfectly serviceable alternative of banning them available, I don't see why it shouldn't be used.
If LiChess are going to ignore people like this chap(ess) feeling that they have more important anti-cheating work to be getting on with it - well I wouldn't necessarily argue that they're wrong. Just as long as they say very clearly that's what they're going to do.