Sandbagging, hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement, may refer to: in billiards and other games, 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; the term has spread to chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

, go and other such games

• Sandbagging (golfing)
  Sandbagging (golfing)
  In golf, a player is said to be sandbagging when he deliberately plays poorly until he establishes a handicap and then increases his money bets on his play using the established handicap to win money from his opponent....
  
  , playing poorly until establishing a handicap and then raising bets, using the established handicap to unfairly win
• Sandbagging (racing), deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform
• Slow play (poker)
  Slow play (poker)
  Slow playing is deceptive play in poker that is roughly the opposite of bluffing: betting weakly or passively with a strong holding rather than betting aggressively with a weak one. The flat call is one such play...
  
  , deceptive play in poker

See also

• Sandbag (disambiguation)
  Sandbag (disambiguation)
  Sandbag may refer to:* Sandbag, a device commonly used in flood control and temporary military fortifications* Sandbag, to engage in sandbagging, i.e. hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement...
  
  
• The Sandbaggers
  The Sandbaggers
  The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and...
  
  , a British TV series from the late 1970s