09 Feb 03
Originally posted by RhymesterCongratulations to both of you! Lord Vaknso for being the first to reach 100 draws and Rebel Rhymester for being the first to reach 101 draws.
Well John you reached 100 draws before me but I've had the honour of breaking through the barrier (thankyou Julia). 101 draws 🙂
Rhymester
10 Feb 03
Originally posted by zach918I'm glad to say that all my resignations have been for the right reason ie: I'm was going to lose. There have been quite a few mass resignations by players for other reasons - this really plays havoc with the ratings.
That would be an interesting record- the person with the most resignations 😉
I wonder who it would be
10 Feb 03
Originally posted by Rhymester
I'm glad to say that all my resignations have been for the right reason ie: I'm was going to lose. There have been quite a few mass resignations by players for other reasons - this really plays havoc with the ratings.
If someone wants to resign games then it's entirely up to them. In my opinion it's naive and wrong to think in terms of right and wrong reasons.
If it makes you glad though that you feel you only resign for the 'right' reasons, while mass resignees are "playing havoc with the ratings" and resigning for the 'wrong' reasons (according to who? who says what's right and wrong? Rhymester? RHP? do you even know what the reasons are half the time?) then good for you.
10 Feb 03
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Mark - Ooooh! Shirty 😉 I only meant that the normal reason for resigning a game of chess is because you can see that you are going to lose the game.
I still think that mass resignations DO play havoc with the ratings because when a highly rated player resigns, say 20 games, some players get an unearned boost. The order in which the player decides to resign the games has quite an impact and then you get the strange situation of the player having to come back from a ridiculously low rating.
I'm not saying that there aren't other understandable personal reasons why players resign lots of games just that when they do it has implications.
Rhymester
10 Feb 03
Originally posted by T1000I hear that squirrel bites can have some pretty weird effects on people... I advise getting a tetanus booster 😉
Many apologies Andrew. Not sure where that little outburst came from. I apologise.
PS. In my original post I was also thinking about the way some people have resigned in games between two of their own nicks in order to manipulate the ratings.
'Bout time you and Bob gave me and Ted chance to nick a few of yer points 🙂
Rhymester