Or...the player could just select "white" in their seek, and stop aborting games.
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Lagomorph wrote:
Or...the player could just select "white" in their seek, and stop aborting games.
That's a really good solution. It's a shame to have to resort to that to get a bit of practice as white though. grr
Aug 9, 2016
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#5
I don't think that you can request White in rated live chess. Only Correspondence (rated or not) or Unrated Live Chess.
However, I do think that aborted games via timeout should count against the user. 5 aborts in a rolling month (rolling month means April 1-30, April 2 - May 1, April 3 - May 2, April 4 - May 3, etc., so you can't have 5 aborts April 30 and 5 more May 1) is the most allowed. You get the 6th one, you serve a 1-month suspension from rated play. Second offense, 2 months. 3rd offense, 3 months, etc. 36th offense, 3 years!
There should be a zero-tolerance policy of aborts in rated play. Time outs should strictly be for connection issues, and if you are having connection issues, one time should be enough to figure that out. Stop rated play and do something else, like post, until your severe lag goes down. Then go back to live rated play. That's why you get 5 in a rolling month! Use them wisely! Not Frivilously simply because you don't want Black, or hate facing anything other than 1.e4 or 1.d4. If your opponent plays 1.Nf3, 1.c4, 1.b4, 1.g4, whatever it is, deal with it!
michaelgravel wrote:
Personally, I don't enjoy playing with people that bring the queen out on the second move and use it to try to sweep the board. Occassionally it is fun watching them self-destruct, but most of the time, I want to play a more positional game. That is the only reason I have aborted sessions; I'm just not in the mood to match their style of play. Call me an elitest, but have you ever seen a Master or GM play in this manner.
Nakamura
Aug 18, 2016
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#7
check_out_23 wrote:
Now I think it would be more to the point to check for live games played as black / white and enforce the ratio of very roughly 50/50, by simply raising the odds of offering black games, and perhaps offering black again if such a game was just aborted.
I don't know about what colour you get if your game was just aborted, but I'm pretty sure the colour assignment algorithm DOES take your playing history into account (and your opponent's too, of course)
michaelgravel wrote:
Personally, I don't enjoy playing with people that bring the queen out on the second move and use it to try to sweep the board. Occassionally it is fun watching them self-destruct, but most of the time, I want to play a more positional game. That is the only reason I have aborted sessions; I'm just not in the mood to match their style of play. Call me an elitest, but have you ever seen a Master or GM play in this manner.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't make sense. You can't abort the game on your second move - you can only resign if you don't want to play anymore.
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
Diakonia:
Isn't aborting a political discussion?
In any case, it's one that the staff doesn't seem to mind:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/how-to-get-abortion
It's mind blowing this isn't the rule. It should be your next game HAS to be black and you are matched with someone who is searching white. Simple as that. I don't know why it's a debate. The random idea doesn't work. And players don't get penalised for aborting because all they have to do is wait 10 seconds for a time out abort without punishment. If there aren't enough players ready for your game type then you could get a message saying do you mind playing black again? But you shouldn't be forced to play black black white (aborted) black black etc
In live chess, many people tend to abort when they get black. Normally, I do not mind either, but it is annoying when you want to play just a couple of games and you get black, black, white (abort), white (abort), and so on.
I think the rule that you cannot abort games too often is meant to combat this, but many people just wait until it is aborted by the server, which they are forced to do as punishment anyways when the abort rule kicks in.
Now I think it would be more to the point to check for live games played as black / white and enforce the ratio of very roughly 50/50, by simply raising the odds of offering black games, and perhaps offering black again if such a game was just aborted.
Just a thought - not sure how complicated that would be to implement ( dunno how this all is set up ), but it would certainly be a nice feature to enhance the play even more ;)