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 Postponement Rules spoil games and interfere with my real lifemaddening and draconian. I have just had a heavy week at work and funnily enough, correspondence chess has not been at the fore front of my mind and now I find that most of my games have been timed out. Unsatisfactory for all and entirely takes the fun out of it for me. My auto postponement feature is disabled for months because it triggered once this year so that's that. There seems no room for negotiation with players who might have been enjoying a game that has now just stopped or anything like that. It completely gets in the way of the fun of the thing for me and gives the impression that the thing is somewhat anally retentive on this point. There is mention of the Fischer time score on this site but that isn't being used is it? Otherwise, as a generally quick and conscientious player then I would have built up a time bank wouldn't I? Look at Facebook scrabble; you have the choice to time someone out if they go over the time limit. It isn't automatic. As the choice seems to be to give up my job or give up the account I am afraid my subscription renewal is in serious doubt. Yours Paul |
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the choice to time someone out if they go over the time limit. It isn't automatic. " I happen to sympathise with this point. It wouldn't be a bad thing if a player was given a choice as to whether they want the time out win or to give the opponent more time, perhaps two days. I don't want timeout victories, I'd rather be able to continue the game if possible, even if I'm losing. I can happily punish players who continually run out of time, but I'd give everyone at least one extension. But, bottom line, I can't argue with HK's comment. Use your postponement if you want a break, that's what it's there for. There are issues I have with the PP rules though. I'm currently on a 30-day break as I've just moved into the country. I'll be active again next week, but I won't be able to PP my games now for 30 days, as per the rules. What if I want a break in this time? This rule annoys me, I should be able to use my vacation time as I see fit. What if I need a 40-day break? I can't. I certainly think there are issues with the current rules. |
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Since artpost is a paying member he gets up to 3 automatic postponements a year. But since GK keeps SECRET the information whether one's automatic postponement is available, it isn't much comfort. |
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baronderkilt 31-Jul-10, 14:06 |
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Time outs I couldn't agree more, however, on the excessive postponement days. I posted about this same thing myself last year. As I recall, almost everyone who responded disagreed with me. I can't imagine why anybody would need 120 postponement days in a year. It leads to what seems to me like rampant abuse. |
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Rules are rules and time management is an essential part of competitive chess, be it CC or OTB. You just have to plan ahead with postponements, I've been caught a few times to timeout myself : well, my bad. (Yes, accidents and so on happen, it's exceptional and that's what the automatic postponement is for if you don't use it for just normal circumstances). G. |
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My Bad, as they say way it should be and, most of the time, I abide conscientiously. And yes, that is the point of slightly competitive chess. I guess my problem is with the inflexibility of the system which is more to do with Game Knot than chess. I go away for the weekend and postpone for a few days. I then have an unexpectedly heavy week at work and I can't postpone because I have postponed once already this month (or whatever the rule is). My auto postpone doesn't fire off because that has been used once this century (or whatever the rule is) and bingo, nearly all of my games time out and my rating goes back to double figures. That seems to be about an inflexibility in the system designed by Game Knot rather than chess. Why does it have to be inflexible to prevent 'abuse'? Aren't we all playing together? How much 'abuse' goes on? If the rules are too lax then we all start taking the mickey, is that it? |
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maca 02-Aug-10, 10:12 |
Abuse of game postponements... Regards, MaCa. |
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Either way, I don't worry about it. I just play. |
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