I've been a greeter to over 240 new members this one was hard .

1066: Hello.

lucas12345: hi

lucas12345: go

1066: Do you play much chess.

lucas12345: gooooooooo

lucas12345: no

lucas12345: go

lucas12345: gogogogogogogogogogogo

1066: I'v gone

lucas12345: rock and roll

1066: If you click on members you can invite friends.

lucas12345: stop liying

lucas12345: i don't want to

lucas12345: gust go

1066: Make your move

lucas12345: i will tell you that you are bad at chess

lucas12345: how long are you taking to move

lucas12345: go now

1066: it's you to make the next move

lucas12345: i am not playing then or should i then if i do you can not play

lucas12345: then go if want to play

1066: Yes i am bad at chess.

lucas12345: i have head sets

lucas12345: byby

lucas12345: go

lucas12345: go

lucas12345: i am sleeping

lucas12345: some thing is wherd

lucas12345: by i have to go to shoping

Maybe he was high on something... *shrugs*

I remember my greeter game. I timed out after a few moves.

New members can be a difficult sort. But greeters are an awesome contribution to the community, so thanks for being one! *supportive hug*

That's hilariouse.

Possibly he meant: "go away"

Obviously under the influence of the planets or...?

Did he resign in a few moves or you terminated the game?

lol!

 I won by chek mate in 4 moves

 Scholar's mate obviously.

Thanks for the reply.

Someday perhaps I will open a forum and ask for the under 6 to 10 moves  checkmate.

Over the course of my chess playing career I have a few gems to add to your opening checkmate game in a few moves.

Great play!

What was his flag? Perhaps his first language wasn't english. Atleast I hope so.

I understand though, it's difficult sometimes when a site's demographic is moderately young, or rather just immature/ignorant for that matter.

My flag is the Canadian flag and I am French and at times I am very good n English language and at times I faulter.

 And I am not young but was born in the 1940'

As far as demographics is concerned, do ask your questions as I speak 3 languages no one perfectly as my own language is French.

Okay, now you've equally confused me Paul. And how do you know that the player was canadian?

I gave up being a greeter because no one seem to want to play me. I think anyone higher then the 1600+ rating here would have that issue and even more so if ur over 2000+ i think.

 He was from Australia. D.O.B 1996.

you propably didn't know he had to press submit move...

I am a greeter but I have limited my greeting games to 5 as i play tournament games and other rated games ..... quite a few of my opponents in greeter games have timed out ....

 Here is where I am at times not clear expressing myself in another language than my native one.

 Devout_Monk in your post #9, your suggested that perhaps his native language was not English. And I merely wanted to agree with you by saying that I was Canadian and French and that somtimes I do not render or write my thoughts clearly.

I do not know the nationality or language of the person and just wanted to support your viewpoint.

being a greeter is fun too though as you could potentially make more friends on the site and help and support those new to the site

I'm pretty much in the same situation as philtheforce, except now I've lowered the limit now to 3 welcome games.  It's a bit disappointing that most players time out, though it's expected since there are many out there who don't know the concept of correspondence chess like here on Chess.com, I didn't understand when I first joined.  But when someone really does play, it's pretty fun, and so far both welcome games that I've completed without a timeout I've actually lost.  Seems that those who are better at chess are more likely to understand and be active on the site.

Yes a lot of the new people don't tend to be that active but perhaps cos its unrated they dont take much notice ... or they just aren't familiar with correspondence. I played on other correspondence sites before this one so knew what they were about