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My opponent (who I won't name lest THAT is poor sportsmanship!) claimed a win on time out even though I had sent a note to each opponenet, set my vacation flag, AND had timebank remaining. Is that less than ideal behaviour?

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Originally posted by clive59
My opponent (who I won't name lest THAT is poor sportsmanship!) claimed a win on time out even though I had sent a note to each opponenet, set my vacation flag, AND had timebank remaining. Is that less than ideal behaviour?
It is possible to claim a timeout when you have timebank left??? πŸ˜•

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If you had timebank remaining you would not have been timed out.

Whilst frustrating that is what you agreed when taking the game.

I got caught out on Christmas Day, a few 1 day timeouts were considered seasonal gifts by some of my opponents. In our household you are lucky if you are allowed to watch tv on Christmas Day, nevermind do something as unsocialable as play online chess.

C'est la vie

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eeeeeek. i've got loads of games with timebank left, and i haven't even got my vacation sign up!

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Only yourselves to blame...

War is war, losers.

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I definitely did have timeebank left over (see game ID 871028). I calculated based on my departure date and return date that NONE of my games could or would time out based on timebank. The "result" indicates "move timeout" (not time bank). War is war but I still think this sucks.

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Originally posted by clive59
I definitely did have timeebank left over (see game ID 871028). I calculated based on my departure date and return date that NONE of my games could or would time out based on timebank. The "result" indicates "move timeout" (not time bank). War is war but I still think this sucks.
What are you talking about? - You resigned this game!

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Originally posted by clive59
My opponent (who I won't name lest THAT is poor sportsmanship!) claimed a win on time out even though I had sent a note to each opponenet, set my vacation flag, AND had timebank remaining. Is that less than ideal behaviour?
Get off the pot dude. You resigned that game! πŸ˜•

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Originally posted by clive59
I definitely did have timeebank left over (see game ID 871028). I calculated based on my departure date and return date that NONE of my games could or would time out based on timebank. The "result" indicates "move timeout" (not time bank). War is war but I still think this sucks.
You resigned from that game!!!

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Did he resign?

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Originally posted by clive59
I definitely did have timeebank left over (see game ID 871028). I calculated based on my departure date and return date that NONE of my games could or would time out based on timebank. The "result" indicates "move timeout" (not time bank). War is war but I still think this sucks.
Methinks you meant game 979738.

The poor sportsmanship in my view is in complaining about something that an opponent is allowed to do.

Whilst is may not be nice to be timed out when you have asked not to be because you will be unavailable, the fact remains that it is at your opponents discretion whether they do time you out or not.

The vacation sign is, in my opinion, a waste of time as it is too easily abused. It is annoying to see people putting up vacations signs saying they are unavailable for say 7 days, only to see them moving every single day of their "vacation".

It would appear that your calculations were incorrect.

It's a loss, it cost you a few points, move on, win again and regain the points.

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Originally posted by adramforall
Methinks you meant game 979738.

The poor sportsmanship in my view is in complaining about something that an opponent is allowed to do.

Whilst is may not be nice to be timed out when you have asked not to be because you will be unavailable, the fact remains that it is at your opponents discretion whether they do time you out or not.

The va ...[text shortened]... ncorrect.

It's a loss, it cost you a few points, move on, win again and regain the points.
I'll "excuse" everyone for piling on - barely ... get off your own pot DUDE (obivously the heioght of intelligent comment there) .. I am not a complete moron as to complain about a game I resigned .. clearly I cut and pasted the wrong game ID, which only adamforall had the brains to figure out.

Now in terms of my calculations being incorrect, I included the timebank, and calculated that even if all my opponenets moved the day I left (which BTW was for a REAL vacation, not a 'I don't want to move right now' vacation) I would have timebank to cover. That was true. However, evidentally one can lose by missing a move timeout even when t/bank remains ...

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Originally posted by arrakis
Get off the pot dude. You resigned that game! πŸ˜•
see my reply DUDE😠

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Originally posted by clive59
I'll "excuse" everyone for piling on - barely ... get off your own pot DUDE (obivously the heioght of intelligent comment there) .. I am not a complete moron as to complain about a game I resigned .. clearly I cut and pasted the wrong game ID, which only adamforall had the brains to figure out.

Now in terms of my calculations being incorrect, I inclu ...[text shortened]... true. However, evidentally one can lose by missing a move timeout even when t/bank remains ...
No you can't. For someone to claim a win you have to have run out of timeout and timebank. That is certain.
You clearly are not infallible as your inability to paste the correct game id shows (or use the link to a game feature) shows. Perhaps you made a mistake in your calculations.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
No you can't. For someone to claim a win you have to have run out of timeout and timebank. That is certain.
You clearly are not infallible as your inability to paste the correct game id shows (or use the link to a game feature) shows. Perhaps you made a mistake in your calculations.
Not true. Look at game 979738 ... I have it archived and have 4.11 days of timebank remaining. No question about it.

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