Originally posted by no1marauderYou are simply unbelievable and the most contentious person here on RHP.
You're about as believable as Carterson.
I am trying to tell you some of the reasons why someone might agree to quick draws but as usual you cannot see anything beyond your blinkered ways.
I am not trying to justify my actions. I gave you the examples and I gave you the reasons. Why would I tell you anything other than the truth? I have nothing to hide. I am not ashamed of what I agreed, it was not against the rules, it was in my best interests and in the same circumstances I would do it all again, irrespective of what you say and post in this thread or anywhere else for that matter.
I am neither unethical, dishonest or unsporting as I am sure dozens of my opponents can testify. QED.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
I started the ethical theme here on the threat, because the the two top rated players agreed in quick draws after 6 moves.
The main discussion point is, whether its ok or not to make such draws. I think, it is, because the ethical maxim is, you are not allowed to make anything beyond the board to take an advantage.
With the rhp rule with 3/1/0 for a win/draw/lose quick draws are a disadvantage. For the fide rule with 1/0.5/0 it would be not.
Ok, can we talk about the tournament and not about that ethical thing?
I think, this threat is quite dead and I will start a new one
Originally posted by tjp1684Probably you mean Game 5832410.
Here's a tournament question. What if the person I'm playing hasn't even made the first move of the match? He hasn't moved in a couple weeks, but his timer hasn't started. Is there anyway to get the clock to start?
When I look at this game, I can see, that the timebank of your opponent is depleting. So its no bug of RHP.
Btw it is a normal and good strategy to reduce your game load.
Against the top rated players in my group I just made the moves out of the book and make the difficult moves only on weekend, when I have time enough. Against the lower rated players I play as fast as I can to reduce the game load.
Your opponent has nearly 40 days left. Thats more than enough for a game.
But if you look at his other games, he isn't moving at all since 2 weeks.
Perhaps he has some problems. Holidays, a child being born, perhaps he died and is vertical challenged with 6 feet under. Who knows?
You just have to wait
Originally posted by afxI'm pretty sure he means this game. Game 5832344
Probably you mean Game 5832410.
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Originally posted by no1marauderThank you very much for considering me an "expert", it is very kind of yours🙂
That's impossible; the strategy of the top two players taking quick draws against each other (as they did in group 59) is suicide according to experts like black beetle.
Just for the fun of this conversation, kindly please explain to me this: if a 2150 and a 2165 agree to draw and the third stronger player of the group is 2130, and every other player of their group is lower than 2050, what do you think? Does the 2130 has an advantage, or not?