Sandbagging is hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement. Sandbagging in billiards, chess and other such games are deliberately playing below one's actual ability in order to fool opponents into accepting higher stakes bets, or to lower one's competitive rating in order to play in a future event with a higher handicap and consequently have a better chance to win. Sandbagging in golfing is playing poorly until establishing a handicap and then raising bets, using the established handicap to gain advantage. Sandbagging in racing is deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform.
A player is sandbagging when the player in any game chooses on purpose to not play their best. Normally this is because they are too superior, they want to hustle you, or they are too lazy to play their best with nothing on the line.
In the following puzzles, it is White to play and win. This training hopefully may reduce the tendency of sandbagging.
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