Claiming victory

Originally posted by Amaurote
Frankly yes - I prefer to have a clean break from the Internet at times, and I naturally like to have games wrapped up when that happens. As for being inconsiderate - well, that cuts both ways: if someone plays like greased lightning and then suddenly start playing like Father Tiresias once they're losing, sorry, that's their prerogative, good luck to them, but mine is timing them out like the bitches they are.

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I wait a month before claiming timeouts. Sometimes I wait longer.

Several times I've lost games to players with appalling-looking ratings when they come back after a long break - because I didn't claim the win. I don't really mind, they deserved the win and I didn't.

Originally posted by MikeXx2020
Game 521430

Is that why this guy stopped moving on 28 May but you timed him out on 15 June? 😀

Thats only 17 days....

Originally posted by orfeo
And that was within the first month of me coming to this site, when I wasn't a subscriber. Something I did over a year ago!

Also, it was that game that first made me think about the issue.

Originally posted by MikeXx2020
yes please. At 10pm I have a program on the tele so can you PM me ? thanks

Originally posted by mikenay
I don't like that analogy. On RHP you're timed per move not for the entire course of the game. There's a good chance that if someone hasn't made a move in a while then it's because they haven't been able to find time in their life to play chess, not because they are devoting more time to the game than their opponent. Correspondance chess really has ...[text shortened]... essage warning them that you were about to time them out, or simply asking them to move.

Mike

Originally posted by acastano
I agree with mikenay. As a matter of fact, I think that the only reason to time people out on RHP is to increase the rating. And if you need this to improve it, then i think you are a lousy player.

Ofcourse there are exceptions. If you have tried to reach that other person for a while without any success, if you consider it's fair enough (i'm not talk ...[text shortened]... ill time him/her out, etc.

I rather enjoy a good game, that increase a little bit my rating.

Actually, timing people out has an auxilliary value, namely identification - if I see someone with half a billion timeouts in their game profile, I'm not going to bother playing them. It helps Clan managers, too - there's a chap playing for the Fast Players (ironically) who hasn't moved since last August (I hope he's all right), yet he keeps being included in Clan challenges for some reason, which costs that clan valuable points. In the absence of a personal withdrawal from him, his game history of timeouts is the best heads-up they and his prospective opponents have.

If my opponent has the courtesy to write a note, vacation or otherwise, I let the game go. If they just time out with no explanation, I will claim a win at my next session at the computer. I won't jump on the computer just to claim a win.

Originally posted by buddy2
If my opponent has the courtesy to write a note, vacation or otherwise, I let the game go. If they just time out with no explanation, I will claim a win at my next session at the computer. I won't jump on the computer just to claim a win.

Originally posted by buddy2
If my opponent has the courtesy to write a note, vacation or otherwise, I let the game go. If they just time out with no explanation, I will claim a win at my next session at the computer. I won't jump on the computer just to claim a win.