Penalties for cancelling games

There should be a penalty, possibly a one or two day ban from joining new games, then people would have to think twice before annoying innocent players!

The downside to that idea is that a player can challenge you to a game and thus create a game with you? I never liked it when a player accepted a game with me and deleted it.

look up the old posts for any of the gazillion times a newcomer has brought up the same topic. and while you're at it, look up threads for:

'when to resign',
'what's en passant?',
'is it possible to convert rhp ratings to elo/uscf/bcf',
'why does my rating decrease even though I just won a game?'
'what happened to ironman31?'
'which is better, a knight or a bishop?'
'was fischer/kasparov/morphy/capablanca the best player there ever was?'

just to save some time.

and to proceed right to getting better at chess, check out rahimk's 'how to get to 1400' thread. and dragon fire's excellent mating tutorials during the last couple of days.

Originally posted by wormwood
look up the old posts for any of the gazillion times a newcomer has brought up the same topic. and while you're at it, look up threads for:

'when to resign',
'what's en passant?',
'is it possible to convert rhp ratings to elo/uscf/bcf',
'why does my rating decrease even though I just won a game?'
'what happened to ironman31?'
'which is better, a and dragon fire's excellent mating tutorials during the last couple of days.

Originally posted by wormwood

'what happened to ironman31?'

I actually don't think so. Before I figured out the rating specifications, I would request people similar in point value say less than 1300 to play me. Several times I had a person in the 1500+ accept the game which annoyed me to no end because I felt they picked my game just to have the pleasure of beating me. It's like dating, you have three dates to figure out if you want to play the person or not. After that you're locked in. ;-)

Originally posted by DoctorDara
I actually don't think so. Before I figured out the rating specifications, I would request people similar in point value say less than 1300 to play me. Several times I had a person in the 1500+ accept the game which annoyed me to no end because I felt they picked my game just to have the pleasure of beating me. It's like dating, you have three dates to figure out if you want to play the person or not. After that you're locked in. ;-)

Originally posted by gooseboy
There should be a penalty, possibly a one or two day ban from joining new games, then people would have to think twice before annoying innocent players!

and dragon fire's excellent mating tutorials during the last couple of days.[/b]

Originally posted by excalibur 8
Sounds interesting, mating tutorials, may I ask with whom?🙄

Laughs, come on Orange Peel. ;-) Dating by it's very nature is funny.