@derkleineJo said ^
It is indeed worth taking a closer look at such posts. The OP plays his games almost exclusively against stronger opponents and rarely competes against weaker ones. Furthermore, his win rate in rapid and blitz is roughly similar: on average, just 37%.
And that's exactly what we see here: every now and then, he proudly posts a victory against a 1900 player. If we look at the probability of winning for a player with 1500 points against a player with 1900 points, we see that the 1500 player has about a 10% chance of winning (i.e. 1 in 10 games). And that is then ‘marketed’ here.
How embarrassing some people find it that you have to post every victory against a higher rated opponent is something everyone has to decide for themselves – but it is what it is: sometimes you win and sometimes you lose; no magic.
Ehh.. First of all the user's rating has been on the rise pretty much consistently since he created his account:

Secondly , of course a player 1600ish rated is not going to have a positive score against folks rated say 300-400elo above you or more.
I admite the user's courage and desire to take on higher rated folks and there's nothing wrong to show some victories from opponents much higher than you.Is the user claiming for instance to be a better player than them or winning them more often than losing?No but he is showing that he can beat them often and give those folks a game.
Thirdly : I hate to serve you some of your own medicine but there's section in the chat etiquette called "public shaming" and the rhetoric you use in your post indicated very much that for instance "How embarrassing some people find it that you have to post every victory against a higher rated opponent". Why must one be embarrassed? Why must one be ashamed. And also perhaps the user is looking for generic feedback to his game and analysis aside from "bragging" if you can label it as such which I won't , in which case it would of been useful to actually give him some if you are capable to even do so instead of try to put the lad down .
@derkleineJo said [^](/forum/redirect/post/iQiLqsmM)
> It is indeed worth taking a closer look at such posts. The OP plays his games almost exclusively against stronger opponents and rarely competes against weaker ones. Furthermore, his win rate in rapid and blitz is roughly similar: on average, just 37%.
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> And that's exactly what we see here: every now and then, he proudly posts a victory against a 1900 player. If we look at the probability of winning for a player with 1500 points against a player with 1900 points, we see that the 1500 player has about a 10% chance of winning (i.e. 1 in 10 games). And that is then ‘marketed’ here.
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> How embarrassing some people find it that you have to post every victory against a higher rated opponent is something everyone has to decide for themselves – but it is what it is: sometimes you win and sometimes you lose; no magic.
Ehh.. First of all the user's rating has been on the rise pretty much consistently since he created his account:

Secondly , of course a player 1600ish rated is not going to have a positive score against folks rated say 300-400elo above you or more.
I admite the user's courage and desire to take on higher rated folks and there's nothing wrong to show some victories from opponents much higher than you.Is the user claiming for instance to be a better player than them or winning them more often than losing?No but he is showing that he can beat them often and give those folks a game.
Thirdly : I hate to serve you some of your own medicine but there's section in the chat etiquette called "public shaming" and the rhetoric you use in your post indicated very much that for instance "How **embarrassing** some people find it that you have to post every victory against a higher rated opponent". Why must one be embarrassed? Why must one be ashamed. And also perhaps the user is looking for generic feedback to his game and analysis aside from "bragging" if you can label it as such which I won't , in which case it would of been useful to actually give him some *if you are capable to even do so* instead of try to put the lad down .