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Avatar of danielnp20

Why when people lost a game for timeout nothing hapens with the ranking? 

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

It depends on a few factors. If not enough moves have been made, not rating change happens. If the player has had a string of more than 5 consecutive timeouts, the site assumes the player has a abandoned the site and no further ratings adjustments are made.

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/19/3/the-game-ended-and-my-rating-didnt-change-at-all-why