Why accept only to abort? - Chess Forums - Page 2

AlanL · 2011-06-28T11:38:26-07:00

Here is something I cannot understand. Quite a few of my open game offerings are accepted, only to be aborted by the acceptor before the first move. What is the point of doing this? If you don't like the game conditions or the user, can't you decide before you accept? The only thing th

kentucky_boy

Dec 5, 2011

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TadDude

Dec 5, 2011

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jaydeeuk1 wrote:

DeepGreene wrote:

Agreed! This poor behavior is being added to the list of things that lowers one's "fair play" score - which will quickly result in the offenders' range of playable opponents being severely reduced.

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/171/0/fair-play-policy

Does this apply to games I abort when being a chess greeter? Sometimes I might have it set to 5 or 10 games, left it a day or so and they've not moved, so I abort to I can play someone else willing to actually play a damn game.

If this does affect my score, then they I won't bother being a chess greeter.

Applies to live not online games.

AlanL

Nov 18, 2012

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This is still going on. There are no unknown variables in the games I create... no random colors, etc. And still, 3/4 of the games I create are accepted and immediately aborted. I wish these children would grow up.

DeepGreene (or other staff), might I suggest a slight modification to the software? While aborting certainly has a legitimate use, we should keep that ability. But perhaps we should disallow aborts within ten minutes of accepting a game. I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but could be worth discussing.