Originally posted by stammeri agree with this.
Why should we care?
has anyone cheated dantes?
has anyone broken the rules against dantes?
has anyone been abusive towards dantes?
has anyone even acted unsportingly towards dantes?
i do not see how claiming a TO constitutes any of the above.
nor do statements like 'he is unbeaten and all that was done to him was a TO' have any relevance to anything.
have we ever in the history of rhp made such a fuss about tebb, bbarr, curator, sintubin etc?
these players won and lost with dignity.
might i also point out, that dantes, to his credit, has never whined about any of this on the forums. from what i have also heard, his opponents have found him to be courteous and helpful.
if he wishes to leave, he should be allowed to do so without such unnecessary, soapoperatic fanfare.
in friendship,
prad
Originally posted by wucky3Joanna,
3)you say this site is populated almost exclusively by dysfunctional anti social cybernerds who have no life......cheers mate. Exactly how do you come to these conclusions?
How you ask...ever hear that it takes one to know one?
Feivel the Freethinker
All said and done, this site is populated almost exclusively by dysfunctional anti-social cybernerds who have no life (and it would appear, among the upper echelons, little spirit of generosity).Martin - your clan leader is very disappointed in your attitude towards us "chess-junkies". Go to the bottom of the clan and do not lose another game until I tell you to!
Edmund - Enjoyed our game although I didn't understand half of what you were saying about your moves. Still, if I stay on this site long enough maybe I'll be able to eh? I wish you well and thanks for teaching Pulsatilla (another of my clan members) a few moves.
I hope everyone can lay this matter to rest now - it seems to have fired everyone up.
Prawn Sarnie is most definitely not to blame. He has done nothing that the rules of this site prohibit. He was involved in ED departing, true, but quite innocent.
I cannot explain why ED chose to quit. There maybe many reasons, maybe this one timeout triggered this reaction as it blemished his rating, which I’m sure anyone would have been proud of, but who really knows?
The fact is, it was just a timeout, one lost game, and he was still riding high. And that rating itself was achieved over 357 victories of which 59 where achieved by timeout. Now, I think that speaks for itself.
As for the introduction of automatic timeouts, I am strongly against, although I know some are very much in favour. I just believe that a good game in progress should be allowed to live on if the players involved want it to, regardless of the time limits. I introduced auto timeouts to the tournaments, where other factors come into play, like trying to get a tournament finished within a reasonable period of time - but for standard games, I would like to leave it up to the individuals concerned.
-Russ