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10 move mark?
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:20 am
by billblais
I've been away from the site for a while, and left a bunch of games hanging very early on. I notice that those that timed out, even if under the 10 move mark seemed to have counted against my rating. Anyone got a sec to explain what I'm missing. (Couldn't find a description of the 10 move rule in the faq..)
Thanks.
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:30 am
by jpettit
A timeout is always a loss, no matter how many moves were played. A timeout will only count as a win if there are at least ten moves played. So your games that timed out under ten moves counts as loses for you, but your opponents didn't get the win added to their stats.
Ah well..
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:42 am
by billblais
OK.. Got it... Where is that rule posted, anyhow?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:08 pm
by kingstownquad
I am playing some games that are very tactical in nature. Danish gambit. Some of the games may be over in less than ten moves but the loosing player does not want to get the loss so they simply stop playing. What can i do? Thanks
Great site
ted
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:10 pm
by kingstownquad
I am playing some games that are very tactical in nature. Danish gambit. Some of the games may be over in less than ten moves but the loosing player does not want to get the loss so they simply stop playing. What can i do? Thanks
Great site
ted
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:08 pm
by gmiller
The player who times out always gets scored a loss. The only point in letting one of those games time out would be to deprive you of the win, which isn't very common.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:18 am
by jkavanagh
gmiller wrote:The player who times out always gets scored a loss. The only point in letting one of those games time out would be to deprive you of the win, which isn't very common.
It's happening to me in three or four games in my first month. It's frustrating. If it's done deliberately, it seems like bad manners.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:13 pm
by jkavanagh
Like g1104679821, for instance.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:23 pm
by gmiller
That game is far from won for black.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:41 pm
by jkavanagh
Of course it's not over till it's over, especially if the guy is as much better than me as his ranking shows. But still, he's about to lose his queen for a rook, to no advantage I can see. You can understand why it's frustrating for me not to see if I could make this count.
Thanks for looking at it - I don't know if it's really considered okay to discuss games in progress.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:45 pm
by gmiller
It's normally not propper to talk about a game in progress, but he's not about to loose his queen for a rook. Ask again in 7 days.