what is sandbagging in chess

Sandbagging in chess is the intentional act of reducing ones chess rating by losing games or drawing with lower-rated players, often with the intent of entering tournaments that they can easily win. Sandbaggers will often resign many games in a row after just a few moves, lowering their rating by a large amount. Sometimes these players will give away their queen before resigning, to make it look like they resigned due to a blunder or misclick. Sandbagging is against the rules whether players are going into a tournament or not. Some sandbaggers just want to win some easy games and will lower their rating to play lower-rated players in auto-match. Sandbagging is considered another form of cheating.