Why are some of my games unrated

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Avatar of lampcord

In the last few days, I'm suddenly finding that about half of my games are unrated. These are daily games. The worst part is, my games where I play white are unrated and where I play black are rated. When I go to custom game, it has rated selected so how can I make sure my games are rated?

Avatar of GM_chess_player

Try making a game rated and abort it if you can?

Avatar of lampcord

Do you mean once a game has started, abort if it is unrated?

Avatar of manekapa
The white unrated games, did you create or accept those challenges?

Also, if a game times out before four moves, it doesn’t affect the daily ratings.
Avatar of lampcord

I went to the games screen in the app, pressed the New Game button at the bottom of the screen, at the top it said 1 day, I clicked Play, and waited for an alert to tell me a game had started. The same way I started the previous 20 or so games all of which were rated.

 

In the New Game screen, if I click Create challenge, rated is checked. So I have no idea why some of my games are coming up unrated but I won one of them against a higher rated opponent and was kind of upset to find that my rating didn't improve.

Avatar of manekapa
You can send a bug report from the app.

I prefer to create daily challenges with my web browser, phone or computer. The web interface gives other options like selecting opponents who don’t timeout. This could be a workaround in case there is a bug.
Avatar of lampcord
manekapa wrote:
You can send a bug report from the app.

I prefer to create daily challenges with my web browser, phone or computer. The web interface gives other options like selecting opponents who don’t timeout. This could be a workaround in case there is a bug.

Thanks, I will do it that way from now on!

Avatar of lampcord

So here's my last 8 games:

black - rated - ongoing
black - rated - ongoing
White - unrated - won
White - unrated - won
White - untated - won*
White - rated - opponent quit before 4 moves
black - rated - lost
White - rated - opponent quit before 4 moves

 

So what might be noteworthy is the game with the *. This was against my son who is a complete beginner. I PURPOSELY played that game as unrated because I knew it was unfair. So is that the problem? Once I played an unrated game, it has somehow 'stuck' and made some of my follow up games unrated?

Avatar of manekapa
I think the unrated setting would be remembered. I always check the settings before creating a challenge.
Avatar of AussieMatey

I don't think it becomes 'stuck'. If you changed it to unrated, it stays there until you change it back.

Avatar of lampcord

OK, but I only changed it for the * game. So somehow it stayed on unrated for 2 more games and then magically switched back to rated. I'm using web browser as suggested by manekapa since and have gotten only rated games.

Avatar of SwearOnMyNan

+ 1 for the same problem here