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im a school kid, and even if you have bad grades theres always a minute for a game of chess...
Oct 15, 2008
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Its a little bit different in correspondence than in live chess. You have to be willing to play a game for a long time (a month or maybe) when you accept/offer a challenge. You only have to make a move at most once a day, which doesn't require that much time commitment. You are perfectly right to want to play on and it is your right to not have to accept the draw.
I am currently in the middle of a game with a player who I will not mention and recently was just hit me the wrong way with something that he said on our in-game message board. I challenged him to play (I think that is how we started playing) and as soon as I make the first move he says that he is going to be using the Chess.com Openings Database so he can learn while we are playing. I told him that I really didn't care what he did although I did tell him that the best thing to do was to analyze the game afterword. So anyway, we have each made 14 moves and he sends me this message about how his grades are slipping and that he would not be able to play for about 6 weeks. Well, I felt bad for the kid until he throws this out (name deleted from this for protection)
" I got some really low grades and I might not be able to play chess for the next six weeks.
can you either forfeit the game (since I'm up six points) or at least accept the draw?
I don't want to time out. It's going to be forever before I can make it into a tournament, and I don't want to make that longer..."
What kind of crap is that. There is still plenty of game left to play and why in the world would I want to forfeit (lose without a fight), or accept a draw for a measley 5 points when a win will get me 30 something. And why in the world would I care if this person has let their grades slip, I didn't get this guy into that situation and I will not throw a game just so someone else can gain points to get into tournaments. In my eyes, that is cheating and a person like that really has no respect for the game of chess.
I guess that I am looking for some feedback on this. Have any of you ever had this happen and if so what did you do about it? If this hasn't happened to you yet, what do you think that you would do in this situation.