Originally posted by wormwood
do you still have your ICC account? - I've been recently winning quite a lot of people who have 2000-2200 top blitz ratings from only 3-4 years ago, and now manage only 1600-1700. so I've been wondering whether there's been some kind of change in the pool(s). in the 5-minute pool it's quite possible, but in the older blitz pool it seems a bit implausible.
rating 1763 with top rating 2183 from nov 2007. there seems to be so many guys like this?
ICC deletes accounts after one year of inactivity.
These were among my highest rated games in 2007:
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2007.09.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Wulebgr"]
[Black "Damenspringer"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "1827"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]
[TimeControl "180"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bd3 dxe4 7. Bxe4 Bd6
8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Bg4 11. d3 f5 12. c3 Rb8 13. b4 Qd7 14. Qb3+
Kh8 15. Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Rxe5 Qxd3 17. Bf4 Rbd8 18. Rae1 h6 19. h3 Bh5 20. Re7 Rd7
21. Rxd7 Qxd7 22. Qe6 Qxe6 23. Rxe6 Bf7 24. Rxc6 Bxa2 25. Rxc7 a6 26. Be3 Rf7
27. Rxf7 Bxf7 28. Kf1 Bc4+ 29. Ke1 Kg8 30. Kd2 Kf7 31. Bd4 g5 32. g3 Ke6 33. f4
g4 34. hxg4 fxg4 35. Ke3 h5 36. Ke4 Bd5+ 37. Kd3 Kf5 38. c4 Be4+ 39. Ke3 Bc6
40. Be5 Bd7 41. Kf2 Ke4 42. b5 axb5 43. cxb5 Bxb5 44. Bc7 1/2-1/2
[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2007.09.05"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Wulebgr"]
[Black "TambourineMan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1883"]
[BlackElo "1990"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]
1. d3 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. f4 a6 5. Nf3 b5 6. Bd2 Nd7 7. g4 Bb7 8. Qe2 c5
9. Bg2 Ngf6 10. e5 dxe5 11. fxe5 Nd5 12. Nxd5 Bxd5 13. O-O O-O 14. Rae1 e6 15.
c4 Bb7 16. Bc3 b4 17. Bd2 Qc7 18. h3 Rad8 19. a3 a5 20. axb4 axb4 21. b3 Bxf3
22. Bxf3 Nxe5 23. Bf4 Nxf3+ 24. Qxf3 e5 25. Bg3 Rfe8 26. Qe4 f6 27. Rf2 Qd7 28.
Rd1 Qd4 29. Qxd4 exd4 30. Rdf1 Rf8 31. Bc7 Rd7 32. Bb6 Rc8 33. Re1 Kf7 34. Ra1
Bh6 35. Rfa2 Be3+ 36. Kg2 f5 37. gxf5 gxf5 38. Ra7 Rg8+ 39. Kf3 Rxa7 40. Rxa7+
Ke6 41. Bxc5 f4 42. Re7+ Kf6 43. Rxh7 Rg3+ 44. Ke4 Rg8 45. Bxd4+ Bxd4 46. Kxd4
Kg6 47. Rh4 Kg5 48. Rg4+ Kf5 49. Rxg8 f3 50. Rf8+ Ke6 51. Rxf3 1-0