Took a look at those games, two of them have moves in them, four of them don't.
My understanding was that if you withdrew from a tournament, you lose nothing for games where no one has moved. Maybe writing a ticket for those four games, pointing out the fact that each game auto starts at 4... (I got confused at first, too), will get you the desired response.
How do i withdraw from a tournament?
You are allowed to withdraw from a tournament at any time using the Withdraw link located on the right hand side of any tournament homepage. However, withdrawing from a tournament while you have games in progress will automatically cause you to forfeit all of the tournament games on time which will negatively affect your timeout % ratio and your rating, even if no moves have been made.
How do i withdraw from a tournament?
You are allowed to withdraw from a tournament at any time using the Withdraw link located on the right hand side of any tournament homepage. However, withdrawing from a tournament while you have games in progress will automatically cause you to forfeit all of the tournament games on time which will negatively affect your timeout % ratio and your rating, even if no moves have been made.
The help entry has been wrong since the start. If you withdraw, all remaining games are considered resignations, not timeouts. Currently zero-move resignations in tournaments affect ratings.
If you instead had allowed zero-move to three-move (six ply) timeouts, there would have been a timeout % change but no rating adjustment.
It is always better to withdraw than to take a timeout hit. A poor timeout ratio could take years to fix.
Ratings are easily recovered when you gain massive points from easily beating players much higher rated than you.
Ratings are easily recovered when you gain massive points from easily beating players much higher rated than you.
Yeah, right.....
Ratings are easily recovered when you gain massive points from easily beating players much higher rated than you.
Yeah, right.....
Current stats:
| Current: | 1900 |
| Today's Rank: | #8645 of 317,562 |
| Percentile: | 97.3% |
| Glicko RD: | 156 |
| Highest: | 2480 (8 Feb 2010) |
| Lowest: | 1509 (12 Jun 2009) |
| Avg. Opp.: | 1935 |
| Best Win: | 2614 (Reb) |
A 1900 rating and an RD of 156. Before the recent fake losses he was rated 2480. He has a 95% confidence interval of 2168 to 2792 "strength". A few no-risk wins over Reb quickly brings his rating back. Reb would be leery of playing him now as there would be an unwarranted massive loss of rating points if he lost and little or no ratings increase if he won.
Here's a message for anyone who needs to withdraw from a toournament: just don't do it!!!
Having won my first round section with a clean score, I was forced to withdraw from round 2 of the Pirc-Austrian tourney for personal reasons before even playing a move. Guees what: chess.com slugged me a massive 580 points, including 120 points for a single game! I have to say I'm really peed off about this grossly unfair treatment, but my protests have fallen on deaf ears.
When you join a tourny, you have to be fully commited to joining it. You're at the point of no return. 120 points is really nothing. You probably played someone 400 points below your rating.
" When you join a tourny, you have to be fully commited to joining it. You're at the point of no return. 120 points is really nothing. You probably played someone 400 points below your rating."
I guess that's what I'm cross about! I didn't play!!!
What I neglected to mention in my first post is my ubderstanding that after 6 consecutive tme loses they stop the ratings clock, but this doesn't happen with withdrawals. I've asked c.c to reconsider their policy, but feel it's rather like trying to talk to a brick wall!
Here's a message for anyone who needs to withdraw from a toournament: just don't do it!!!
Having won my first round section with a clean score, I was forced to withdraw from round 2 of the Pirc-Austrian tourney for personal reasons before even playing a move. Guees what: chess.com slugged me a massive 580 points, including 120 points for a single game! I have to say I'm really peed off about this grossly unfair treatment, but my protests have fallen on deaf ears.