Distress rule of making a player lose by abandonment.

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apjoshua

Mar 17, 2019

For people who work and play chess intermittently to destress, the rule of losing on abandonment is absolutely unfair!

I put seeks and sometimes forget. Then when I switch to chess.com’s window, I see that i’ve lost a dozen points because of ‘abandoning’ the game.

Very disappointing.

I’ve also tried to put a filter of Min = -50 and Max = any for both ingoing and outgoing seeks. Still, i’m paired with opponents below 2350. Not that I want to be a jerk and abort these games but I’m on a journey to improve my game after a long academic break.
Hence, I want to preferably play 2400+ players only.

Can someone please help?

TIA :)
Joshua.