Not to mention how pathetic it is a stance, to yell aloud "I got beaten by a regular opponent, now give me a dwarf so I can beat them up in turn".
That was the best thing I've read today, I'm getting it tattooed on my chest
I'll get it scrawled over my face
If you don't like playing people much higher rated than you or much lower rated than you
Click "Play/custom game" "select rating range" "-25 / +25"
That way you always play people at your rating range.
Imagine-
all players can abort games before move 1 for any reason of their choosing, no restrictions or penalties.
A great formula for a successful chess site ! Geez ... why hasn’t anybody thought of this before?
After all they say - it’s about a players “rights”.
Your right ?
No such right exists.
CC extends the courtesy of aborting a few games without penalty.
Abuse the courtesy and a penalty is administered.
Grow up. We all know what this is about. Accept and play games as they appear. I refuse to play the rare abusive usernames and abort. Never any problem. You think a right exists to play anybody of your choosing? Set your seek as such. Otherwise stay out of the main pool.
Aborting is still pretty bad, you simply just shouldn't complain about what happens and everything's better.
One way of determining whether an action is "right and proper" is to ask yourself "What would it be like if EVERYBODY did it?".
Aborting games fails this test.
you can set the level of the opponents, for example min -100 and max +100 or +50
In my experience the most likely candidates to abort are bullet players who are rated significantly higher than me. I presume they don't want to risk losing rating.
One way of determining whether an action is "right and proper" is to ask yourself "What would it be like if EVERYBODY did it?".
Aborting games fails this test.
Doesn't work.
"I like to climb flagpoles"
"What would it be like if EVERYBODY did it?"
If everybody climbed the flagpole, you wouldn't be able to get back down because of the press of people crowding in below you.
It should have a penalty otherwise people will abort if there is a factor they do not like. For example, someone could just want to play white every game. Even worse, people could troll and waste time, though there is not explanation why a human would do that. I agree with some posts here that say there should be a limit of aborts, but I like the current system.
You can set a grade +/- limit. After that, I think you have to play whoever you get paired with no question. I would never abort because of who I get paired with or what colour I get allocated. This feels completely wrong.
For The Greater Chess Community:
This forum question seems the perfect place to air out a problem I'm having: I signed up for a tournament call "Knights(only)! The actual tournament page had no other explanation. It could have meant Gentlemen Only. When the tournament begin, before making a single move I aborted all 8 games. This did not affect my classical rating, but it did put 8 losses on my W/L record. Why? The game pieces were: 1 King, 8 Pawns, 7 Knights! I aborted the tourney because this is not classical chess. This is actually a debasement of chess. It's not even chess960 (which has it's own rating). Go ahead, put my chessknights only rating at 0 and -8. But why affect my classical or day rating?
I agree aborting before a move has been played is fair. The chess boom has been going on for 18 months+ but a new account created in the last 7 days with 100% win percentage - I don't want to play them. So I abort.
Aborting a game before the first move has an impact on your opponent. He/she was waiting for an opponent. Then found an opponent. The opponent aborts. That time has been lost. Within that time there may have been an opportunity to play another opponent and that opportunity has been missed.
With variants (live 960, live Crazy House) this is worse. There is more waiting time involved before there is an opponent. The negative impact of aborting is therefore even bigger with variants.
I'm happy that it is considered a violation.
Your right ?
No such right exists.
CC extends the courtesy of aborting a few games without penalty.
Abuse the courtesy and a penalty is administered.
Grow up. We all know what this is about. Accept and play games as they appear. I refuse to play the rare abusive usernames and abort. Never any problem. You think a right exists to play anybody of your choosing? Set your seek as such. Otherwise stay out of the main pool.