How did I manage to get a timeout with zero disconnections?
After my last game where my opponent played a 6-0-0 17 cp loss
58 mover I contemplated even making a 59th move for 37 seconds
in my lost position, ran out of time, and got timed out anyway. Was I required
to move when I couldn't find anything my opponent's perfect play
wasn't going to defeat?
You should make better use of your alotted time. Delivering all crucial moves quickly and then letting run your time out in a completely lost position is exactly the wrong way.
My pleasure. Thx.
I am in completely lost positions over and over that somehow turn into wins. Should I resign
instead? I can never figure out why others resign when lost after letting their clocks go to
1 second. Is this the answer?
I don't really understand what you're asking. It sounds like you're complaining about a ban for letting your time run out. It would be hard for the computer to decide if you purposefully ran out the clock or were actually thinking.
In a recent game, my opponent realized that he was close to being checkmated. He sat for over 3 minutes, then blitzed out a few moves to make it look like he wasn't a sore loser. The server correctly found this to be inappropriate behavior.
People let their time run out and they "let their time run out". Being mentally frozen
for trying to figure out if there is a motif anywhere or just facing
someone who has a flawless game thru move 58 is confusing. I should have the right
to study a position for 37 seconds during ANY of my allotted time without some strange
algorithm making and equally strange moral judgement about about human motivation.
These are cyber-points, not Fischer never even showing up for Game 2...and gee, teaching him
"what's appropriate" really worked. People may let 3
minutes go by because they had a catastrophe. It's not like they were kicking your chair or blowing flu in your face which goes on in every single tournament.
#5
These are the rules of this site. If you disagree, you can protest or you can leave. No one is forcing you to use this site.
Thank you so much for pointing that out...but before someone tosses all my invaluable points to the wind I would ask one small favor: explain "These are the rules of this site". I think what you are stating is that you know for a fact these kind of algorithms where a human takes "too much time on a move" or "should have resigned earlier" really do exist...details?
You see there's no "protest" of any sort...just a desire to be educated.
You know the site is way under staffed & nothing but ghosts when they have to direct you to another site to get the rules/\… While tools chime "love it or leave it"
That's the code that runs this site.
