Quote: Now the thing with the latter is they are clearly really good.. not just a bit bit good.. They are all over me BUT.. here's the thing; they get me well and truly goosed... at the point of killing a group then they move out to somewhere else - giving me the vital point. To cap it all I offer a count toward the end (usually because I know I'm 50 or so behind) -- they refuse and then resign!
First of all, if you request counting when the game is not finished and they accept it they will lose in most cases, maybe even in all cases!
There are many players that are clearly losing a game and then start to request counting on every single move - many times and also wait until the last second to play an atari, until you finally accept and lose. Therefore your opponent doesn't want to waste time and just resigns, because he knows that he has won.
That is something that you will see unil about 12k. A stupid strategy like requesting Draw after you lost a big Dragon.
As for the stronger players: Yes there seems to be a lot of sandbaggers, but I don't really know if they are, the lowest rank that I had on Tygem was 16k and I fought my way up to 10k in the past month. And I had the feeling at around 13k the players start to get weaker (or I'm just getting stronger - I don't know). That could mean that the sandbaggers are 17k-13k, but it could also be a coincidence.
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