Can someone please explain this "57 seconds" post? Thanks.
Selling Vacation Days in "Online Chess."
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Maybe he has 87 vacaction days that he wants to give away (sell?) to all the registered accounts. I'm guessing if every registered account wanted to buy a piece of his vacation (87 days) they would only end up with an extra 57 seconds total.
Btw, I too think this is a horrible idea fwiw.
fwiw? And please explain why you think this is a horrible idea. This is a discussion, not some kinda poll or vote.
yottaflops wrote:
Maybe he has 87 vacaction days that he wants to give away (sell?) to all the registered accounts. I'm guessing if every registered account wanted to buy a piece of his vacation (87 days) they would only end up with an extra 57 seconds total.
How would he collect money from five million people. It would be easier to sell his vacation days to just one or two guys, I'd think.
fwiw = for what its worth
As far as buying vacation days, would there be a max you could *own*? If so, what would the limit be? If no max, then you could have games on here going on for decades, if not centuries. Is that what you really want? An opponent that has years of vacation days and can extend any of your games by a least an order of magnitude? Say you are playing someone in a 3 day game. Right before you are going to mate him (say maybe in two moves), he goes on vacation for two years! Is that really in the spirit of the game?
It'll be ok. 1) The player will have to go on this two-year vacation in ALL his games, not just the one in which he's about to get mated. So basically, he would be committing himself to resigning from all online chess for two years. And, 2) in invidual cases like the one you described the staff can intervene, investigate, and if necessary adjudicate the game. You just saw Kohai give a real life example where the staff was ready to investigate such a situation when the player left with just 87 days of vacation.
So there, everything's cool!
The need is, there are a lot of "online" and vote chess players stressed out and wanting to go on "vacation" but the majority of the site decries "abuse" anytime those hard-working chess players want to take even a day off.
Compare this loathesome situation to the regular working man's work week from the start of the industrial revolution to the present. Back in the 1830's it was not uncommon for a laboring man to work 80 hours a week, every week, with no time off from work except Christmas and a couple other key Christian holidays.
Now, look at a regular man's working schedule, it's more like 40 hours a week, with two weeks of "vacation" at least in the United States, and much more guaranteed in France.
You people fulminating against chess vacation "abuse" here on this site remind me very much of greedy and inhumane mill owners out of something in Charles Dicken's Hard Times!!
This is 2012, guys, not 1832!!
Vacation days are fine, and neccesary when even non-vacation games can last months, or even years. Unlimited vacation days are not fine, and that's essentially what you're suggesting. I don't want my two-year long correspondence game to be interrupted by five years of vacation time, whatever the mechanism that allows that might be.
Also, you've listed no benefits for selling vacation time between players. What's the point?
Sep 26, 2012
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John, get a grip man. We're talking about playing chess, so to compare against working conditions in the 19th
Century gives your argument no credibility at all. If the number of moves you need to play is stressing you out, then the answer is simple, play less games and stop advocating a policy which even in it's present form causes frustration to many and to extend it would exacerbate the situation even further! I'm afraid your crusade is a non starter, but I do hope you enjoy the debate.
Freedom for the oppressed!!!
Chess players of the world unite!
Down with the oppressors and accountants.
Hurrah for the hard working chess professionals.
Give us our transferable vacations. Rights for all and all for right!
Joe Hill is spinning in his grave. RIP
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chess.com could start everyone's vacation from the top a one time thing for all players.
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Sep 28, 2012
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johnmusacha wrote:
Like Khoai (an admin/staff) said, in individual cases of abuse, the staff can step in and adjudicate the game. Like when someone closes his account leaving 500 vacation days. (which he probably should have sold before he quit).
In your normal everyday case, I don't see why vacation days should not be transferred freely between accounts, and why the cap of ninety (90) days should not be lifted.
No, what i said was that i can turn off someones vacation IF they close their account :)
Bitcoin should work well for this.