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I ask the membership, is it ethical to lagarate? You won't find this in
the dictionary, because I just made it up. Basically lagaration is this.
You have worked hard and improved your rating to the level it will
probably stay for the rest of your life. You put out an invite, and you
are playing someone 2or 3 hundred points below you in rating. After a
half dozen moves, you start to realize that your opponent is much
better than you, and a quick inspection of the profile shows that your
opponent is something like 10-0. As your game continues, you find
yourself in a lost position, a hopeless position that can be resigned at
any time. This is where the lagarating would take place. You don't
resign. You keep the game alive as long as you can, because you
know that in a few days or a week your opponent will be ahead of you
in rating, and the loss won't be as crushing on your rating. So I ask
you all, is it ethical to lagarate?🙂🙂
I'm probably one of the players that is most affected by this. I play
LOTS of open invites and at one time or another have played many of
the top 50 players on this site when they were unknown quantities with
1200 ratings. When I used to have considerably fewer games in
progress than now I did indulge in a bit of 'lageration' but now I just
take it as an occupational hazard.
Everyone has the opportunity to choose things like the order in which
they resign or claim wins (this can have an impact on the resultant
rating) and I can't see anything wrong with this.
The big problem that I see with this whole subject is just how can very
good players get people to play them in any other system than the
one we have now.
If a player signs up and states that although they have been given a
1200 rating they are, in reality, more of a 1700+ player, how can they
expect highly rated players to give them a game until they have
reached their true rating? Playing un-rated is one solution but of
course that doesn't help the player concerned to gain rating points.
Good players really do have to keep a bit of a low profile and play
amongst the the other newbies and lowly ranked players until they've
put on a fair few points.
Middle to high ranking players just have to be aware that while they
are 'bottom feeding' they can quite easily come across a nasty
surprise 😉
Rhymester
Originally posted by Bobla45It may be legal as long as you make a move withing the timeout the
I ask the membership, is it ethical to lagarate? You won't find this
in
the dictionary, because I just made it up. Basically lagaration is this.
You have worked hard and improved your rating to the level it will
probably stay for the rest of your life. You put out an invite, and you
are playing someone 2or 3 hundred points below you in rating. A ...[text shortened]... he loss won't be as crushing on your rating. So I ask
you all, is it ethical to lagarate?🙂🙂
game is started. When it becomes unethical in my opinion is when a
player keeps the game active by repeatedly offering draws. I recall
one game I played against a player rated about 300 point above me.
He (lagarated) the game for four months. To his surprise, my rating
dropped before he finally resigned. It may be ethical but it is
aggravating to the player in a winning position. As Andrew
(Rhymester) stated. I take my loses as an occupational hazard.
Remember though, playing for rating is not as much fun as playing for
fun.
John
PS: Or as much fun as Fighting a MAP WAR.
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Originally posted by Bobla45Bob,
I ask the membership, is it ethical to lagarate? ... improved your
rating to the level it will probably stay for the rest of your life... After a
half dozen moves, you start to realize that your opponent is much
better than you...
All I will say on this is yes it can be frustrating, but, you are only going
to get better at chess by playing better players - and I am a afraid
this means a lot of loosing. I think it can be a bit of a bonus to
befriend a very good player "on the up" as it were. They will continue
to play you when they have reached their true rating so you will
continue to grow as a player. If you "annoy" them they may not play
you again.
Cheers
Andrew