Annoying Practice!

cliff · Post by **cliff** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:42 pm

Now this si the type of thing that I find very irresponsible and inconsiderate to other players:

The tournament is m1252058543.

The Start Date was September 4, 2009.

The "player" that entered was 'seandowney'.

His results?
Observe:

Showing games only for seandowney. To show all games Click Here.
Game White Black Moves Last Move Status Winner
g1104992166 cliff seandowney 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992174 lga seandowney 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992181 seandowney jvanmechelen 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992187 seandowney wyckedknight 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992192 seandowney thorr 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992196 seandowney lovecraft 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992199 seandowney rpatru 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992201 seandowney islanderfan 1 9/4/2009 In Play
g1104992203 seandowney petre 1 9/4/2009 In Play

In other words, he forgot all these games? I once met a potato with a better attention span!

GRRR!

dcroll · Post by **dcroll** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:41 am

What do you want to say?

You find enough other players with a longer attention span than potatoes...

I, for example, am an onion. I like those plants.

On the other hand, he's new here.

Date Joined: Fri, Sep 04 2009 05:09am
Provisional: Need 20
Last Logged in on: Fri, Sep 04 2009 05:09am

If he comes back to play regularly, be happy about it. I know enough internet games that amused me for a short time, and then I just never came back to play more... now, chess tickles my mind. It's a habit of mine.

cliff · Post by **cliff** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:13 am

[quote="dcroll"]
You find enough other players with a longer attention span than potatoes...

I, for example, am an onion. I like those plants.

I relish the game myself! You never know what possiblities will turnip in a game, and finding ways to beet your opponent is always fun!

So, lettuce all just enjoy!

sonrisante · Post by **sonrisante** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:07 pm

I think this is a general issue with first-time players. Often people join the site and join games not realizing how slow these games are. I remember my first day I was not sure how to make the games start.

Then, when my first game was accepted, I forgot how to log in again! Took me a while to get into the habit of checking back every once in a while, just to be discouraged that no one had made a move yet. (That's why I initially turned on my email notices.)

Most sites are interactive chess sites, so the notion of waiting many hours or days is foreign. As much as there are notes all around the site telling new users what to expect, most people don't read the instructions.

So, basically in any tournament of many people that take a few days to collect all the opponents, such as with 10 or more players, I just expect 2 or 3 of them to be complete newbies who will not even make their first move. I just wish it didn't take 30 days for their timeouts to take effect.

cliff · Post by **cliff** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:51 pm

I suppose that really is the annoying thing, a you mentioned. That's why I post tournaments with shorter time limits, such as 7d + 12h. And it's aldo why I avoid posted tournaments with more than one or two 'newbies' in them. I often don't expect these games to ever really happen. They just sit there, and finally go away when the time forfeit occurs. But that's just the way it goes.

For the most part, I can pick and choose the events, and just have to grin and bear it when the opponent isn't really there!