Good day to all who loves chess and chess.com!

 I (rating then was below 1500, now 1500) issued a challenge to one of the highest ranked players (rating 2400++) at chess.com. My objective was to have an experience  on how it feels to play the best. I was exultant that he/she accepted it. However, it seems the game was forgotten by my supposed to be opponent. So I won by default.  Is there a penalty for this type of game defaults?

I believe once a challenge is accepted, it is already a commitment to finish the game.

It is fair that the winner should not be given rewards, but the one who defaulted should be penalized.

Your opinion, please.

Thank you. 

Maybe after each player has played 1 move...

You're right though!

Thankfully I haven't had this problem on this site yet, and I've only had it a few times elsewhere.

 

Nice post.

-Matt 

did you make any moves? if not i think it's a non-game, even if he accepted.

i dont think either ratings should be effected.

i think you have to make a number of moves before ratings are afected. maybe three moves.

i think that there is not really a point in playing somone who is that much higher rated then you. you can play someone just 200 points higher and you will likly lose and you can learn form this person. if you play someone nearly 1000 points higher your eyes will still see the same stuff.

Also someone in the 1700s will be more likely to help you improve. for example the lowest rated player on this site would probably enjoy teaching someone how each piece moves. someone rated 1700 would enjoy teaching about openings, good pieces and bad pieces, and other stuff. Now would an IM enjoy teaching these things? probably not.

To gordo,

One move for white , and one move for black were made.

I know i will lose, but the experience will certainly be great for a chess enthusiast like me.

thanks 

 

Well you can always use the forums to convince other players to boycot this player if he or she hasn't yet apologized to you for letting you down.

However, it makes perfect sense that your rating should not be affected because you didn't use brains at all to defeat your opponant that therefore you should not be rewarded for that.

You must have noticed that in you game records it says you defeated that player, and same will appear in his or her records (not so pretty). Now you can't now for sure if your opponent mindly neglected you game, and anyway it is difficult to"punish" him or her in ayway. Maybe that could have players lose involvement point? I mean, it's indeed against the community to let other fellow members down like this. 

i would like to suggest that a rule be made: an accumulated defaults of 5 games in a year for games that ended before move 4 is equal to 50 points loss in rating points.

It does not seem that the initial question was answered.  She was not asking to gain points, but rather to have a penalty applied to the negligent party, presumably to serve as a disincentive for others to accept games and then not play them.  This makes perfect sense, at least to me.  Ironically, if one makes four moves and then stops, then the game is official, and blood is shed (points are lost).  So, having already made three moves, and contemplating making that one more fateful move, one would be punished for doing so.  Yet making only three moves seems (marginally) worse than making four.  The punishment should fit the crime, no?

hehe you win alright but where is the game.......

that was along time ago. old news, it is already in the archive.

Get over it! You didnt win a game of chess. You just won on a technicallity. Nothing to boast about buddy. Maybe you have learned a lesson though????

can you post the remaining cheeks...merry christmas...

with a 99.9% certainty i would bet.....

you will always have him tagged as your highest win on your profile and he will always have you tagged as his worse loss on his (upgraded premium) stats.  That should be way more of a penalty for someone who use to hold the #1 seat out of 20,000 to 30,000 players at chess.com for a long time. (we're up to 53,722 active players now)

hondoham. i like your stats. yes, he was tagged as my highest win

Maybe he wanted his rating to go down to qualify to a lower rated tournament. His team will gain more points. Sounds reasonable?

YOU ARE RIGHT!!