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by davebrown
Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:10 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Drawn game
Replies: 8
Views: 15679

Re: Drawn game

That´s far too much for a player who started with 1759 in 2008, went down to 1649 and then exploded to 1837. After another down (1682) he now found back to his way up again (low 1800). I can´t imagine that you want to take the responsibility for another turn down, so you should better resign ... ...
by davebrown
Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:59 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: another ratings question
Replies: 1
Views: 6605

Actually on the Join page ( http://www.net-chess.com/stepbystep.shtml ), you can enter your initial rating. The default is 1500 though. There is this statement just below the fields: " Your initial rating only effects your ability to enter your first few matches. After your first five games are comp...
by davebrown
Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:54 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: reward timeouts
Replies: 9
Views: 39229

Some folks have played thousands of games on this site. It would be reasonable for those folks to have a high number of timeouts. To keep from inadvertently preventing them from joining games, having a way to enter a maximum percentage of timeouts or a simple check box that excludes anyone with 50% ...
by davebrown
Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:22 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: "HAPPY NEW YEAR"
Replies: 1
Views: 6542

The board, it beckons.
Knight flies, ivory to earth.
"Check!" Your Queen is trapped.
:)