About 8-10% of my opponents drop out of my tournaments without notice. I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games. It inflates my rating. I realize people sometime have circumstances that make this necessary, but many times they just quit for no good reason. Perhaps RHP should consider a temporary blacklist of players that habitually drop out of games for no good reason. This practice is in force in many ICCF national groups. Any thoughts?
Originally posted by bill718You're a control freak.
About 8-10% of my opponents drop out of my tournaments without notice. I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games. It inflates my rating. I realize people sometime have circumstances that make this necessary, but many times they just quit for no good reason. Perhaps RHP should consider a temporary blacklist of players that hab ...[text shortened]... games for no good reason. This practice is in force in many ICCF national groups. Any thoughts?
Originally posted by bill718In your profile I can read "Please don't exceed time control because I click on skulls."
About 8-10% of my opponents drop out of my tournaments without notice. I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games. It inflates my rating. I realize people sometime have circumstances that make this necessary, but many times they just quit for no good reason. Perhaps RHP should consider a temporary blacklist of players that hab ...[text shortened]... games for no good reason. This practice is in force in many ICCF national groups. Any thoughts?
In your posting you write "I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games."
I can't add this together... You purpously inflate your rating by timing them out, but you don't like to inflate your rating by winning over abandoning tournament opponents?
Originally posted by FabianFnasI guess he dislikes having games taking too long more.
In your profile I can read "Please don't exceed time control because I click on skulls."
In your posting you write "I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games."
I can't add this together... You purpously inflate your rating by timing them out, but you don't like to inflate your rating by winning over abandoning tournament opponents?
This site is mostly geared toward people playing casually, for fun. It's not some kind of deadly serious commitment that we need to punish people for breaking. (I also wonder how you know what people's reasons for dropping games are, and whether they're any good or not?)
Your rating will quickly return to your actual playing strength, even if it's temporarily inflated. Also, your rating is relative to the ratings of other players on the site, which are also affected by timeouts in a similar way. It's not as if your rating is particularly wrong compared to anyone else's; it works the same way for everyone.
The people who drop games don't always leave the site completely, either. Sooner or later you wind up playing a 1000-rated player whose strength is really 1800 or something, and you wind up giving all those points back.
Originally posted by bill718i'd love to have a rating of 2500, that'd mean that I'm better than Weyerstrass!
About 8-10% of my opponents drop out of my tournaments without notice. I may gain rating points this way, but this is not how I wish to win games. It inflates my rating. I realize people sometime have circumstances that make this necessary, but many times they just quit for no good reason. Perhaps RHP should consider a temporary blacklist of players that hab ...[text shortened]... games for no good reason. This practice is in force in many ICCF national groups. Any thoughts?
Originally posted by bill718all chess players are control freaks, seeking to control the center, control the long diagonal, control open and half open files! what happened to those romantic days of 1,e4 e5, 2.f4, where a man stood toe to toe with his adversary in a display of nonchalant swashbuckling sacrificial brilliance! i blame Nimsovitch for its demise!
Yes...I'm a control freak. I can't control it!🙄
Originally posted by robbie carrobie😵
all chess players are control freaks, seeking to control the center, control the long diagonal, control open and half open files! what happened to those romantic days of 1,e4 e5, 2.f4, where a man stood toe to toe with his adversary in a display of nonchalant swashbuckling sacrificial brilliance! i blame Nimsovitch for its demise!