u/Dilly-dallier

This was an extremely short game with an opponent who was extremely .... In need of some puzzles and basic lessons. I know Elo goes +/-8 points when you win or lose, and up to 100 and something if you're playing your first 5 probationary games but my opponent had a 3 year old account (with almost no games played but still around 200 so well past their first 5) I won , got my 8 points but they lost -18 I've never seen that before, what causes it ?

Just curious how many actually use that feature , I generally dont see it as worth it because it'd eat time even at 1 sec per move it's 6.7% of your 10 min rapid In a 40 move game. You don't need to read this whole post it's just my logic for not using it despite it potentially being a lifesaver but I'm curious about what you guys do .

My things are when your in those games where you're down to only a king and your only hope is a clock race every fraction of a second counts and if I had to confirm those moves I'd 100% lose the races against the clocks. However more than once I've had mouse slips so bad theyve cost me the Game, it's almost always because I physically scroll through selecting pieces while it's my opponents turn to quickly confirm squares are defended and say I want to move a queen to a square defended by a knight I'll hit the square I want to go to but forget I still had my knight selected instead of switching to the queen. Ive tried to get out of that habit by making sure that if I'm scrolling pieces I'll switch to a random pawn or something far away from any square I might want to hit since for some reason there's no way to just put a piece down without picking another. And I've also had the more traditional mouse slips where I just hit the wrong square but even tho both clock races and mouse slips are rare, the mouse slips are rarer but they almost always cost me entire games I'm winning , whereas in a clock race I'm already losing and am just playing 'lawyer chess' idk it's not just about clock races, that's the extreme but I feel like confirming every move would at worst double my move time and at best add a second to It and that makes an actual difference ?as I mentioned above ) Anyways all this is just to ask how many of you actually use it.

Im not all that good but I also don't play with the greatest accuracy because Iove psyching people out so games as low as 70 aren't unusual for me. I've gone higher and lower but is say 75 is my average. When I say perfect I mean >92% I've never even seen 100s unless it was a 1 move game..sure I get the odd 80+ and occasionally over 90 in really short games but I just got 95% after a 20 move game and I'm a a bit giddy.

I'd figure something like total sacrific, tactical sacrifice/shot/shit.but I've seen it used here to describe situations where one could apply but others don't. From what I infer it's generally not a good thing but it's confusing not getting what someone is trying to say..yes I'm a noob make fun of me all you want but a real answer would also be greatly appreciated 😂.