Winter Dog #2 Championship: (Marks1420 v comradm)

This is the final of the Winter Dog #2.  Information on the tournament can be found here.

@Marks1420 has white, @comradm has black. Good luck!

1. e4

Phew! Well, honest to God, it was about time. (The long-waiting champions of this tournament have finally reached their final match.)

Best of luck to both players.

GL

1... g6

@Dromina/BattleChess: Thank you for your interest in this game and your kind words

Time warning 

1. d4

@ComradM Of course! My interest is in this whole tournament. I am greatly eager to see the champion of it.

@Marks1420

I think you meant 2.d4. 

Hm, Marks didn't waste any word to clarify this point. In the most probably case that he wanted to play 2.d4, my answer is

2... Wi8-g7

Time warning

@Marks1420: After the time warning, you didn't make a move for nearly 25 hours. According to the rules, 24 hours after not responding to a time warning, your opponent can claim a win. And so I do. Since the rules are invented to be applied, I feel free to apply them, want to stop the game at this point and claim a win

Ugh, looks like I forgot. You win. :\

For clarity, Marks' "1. d4" instead of "2. d4" is a legally binding move, since it was a legal move. Numbering the move incorrectly doesn't matter. If you make an error and it's not a legal move (perhaps 2. d5), you're free to correct the error and make any legal move. 

And yes, that was a perfectly valid time warning and claim. Good win!

Thx for this comment, tug. If someone has doubts because the win was by timeout: at the moment I have no active games, and am ready to give Marks a revanche. Of course,  you tug can challenge me too, you need only 8 rating points to break the all-time-record and my rating should now be high enough to bring you this 8 points if you win.

The only probs are, that I would need a mod, and that I avoid desinterested/slow opponents. If you (or someone else) can manage to make a move in the normal correspondece time of 3 days, or at least to send a message if special circumstances make this impossible, he/she can challenge me to a game of Bulldog Chess.

Thanks but I'm too busy to take on new games at the moment, I'm struggling to find time with the one game I have. I'm pretty slow at the best of times, particularly slow recently. Probably best you find a faster opponent because I'll likely frustrate you.

Sorry to complicate the waters, gentlemen:

Don't you get a maximum of 4 time warnings, according to the latest correspondence rules?

You still have to respond to a time warning within 24 hours.

My response here is old and ill-timed, but for what worth it still holds,

Marks already made his 1. move. It was 1.e4. "2.d4" was my correcting his numbered move: it was his 2nd move, not his first.

Also, victory was claimed a long time ago, and I'm assuming there's not reversing it. However, if one responds within 24 hours, he/she might as well make a move, so what would be the point in the 4 time warnings rule in the first place?

Only after the first 3 time warnings, the slow player has this 24 h to respond. In the fourth time, the fast player doesn't need to warn at all, but can immediately claim a win.

It is understandable that you were looking forward to an exciting game and are now a bit disappointed.  But the idea that my victory should be subsequently reverted is incomprehensible. It was a victory under the existing rules, and who doesn't agree with them, can request to change them. To eliminate remaining doubts: if you are ready to moderate, I give everybody here the chance to be the first who was able to beat me, or at least to draw