Match Mayhem

Could an  unfavourable result in Team Matches be appealed if it was due to the presence of several new members provisionally rated as "1200 newbies" who turned out to be in fact highly experienced players? If interested  please see current match Scotland v Bulgaria and look at the ensuing ratings at foot of the entrants'  table for a possible example.

It seems that tightening up the requirements for team matches is not a high priority. One fairly easy way to exclude members with not-yet-settled ratings would be for chess.com to introduce the MINIMUM NUMBER OF GAMES option that is available when creating tournaments.

Whether any Team Admin would use it though, is another matter. It would have to apply to BOTH TEAMS in much the same way as these other Team Match balancing mechanisms (STRONGEST  EARLIEST  BEST MATCH  FAIR MATCH  WEAKEST ) I proposed earlier (team-matches---level-playing-field-scheme and first-come-first-served-team-chess).

As usual, comments have opened up a mine of information hitherto unknown to me .Probably simplification would be best route to follow, though computers can achieve mastery of most complexities.Programming time though, is of course quite another matter and must be paramount consideration of value of any scheme.

I do not know where to post my complaint, so I might as well take advantage of this space, with all my apologies.  My complaint is I lost 3 consecutive games at home because the chess board was moving up and down.  In my second game I was delivering a mate in one with the queen when the board moved up causing me to move the queen in the wrong square.  What is happening and how can I remedy this situation.  Now at work during my break, I used to play but now I could no longer do it because the set up would not load when I click the challenge mode.  Help me.

Well friend Alejandro, first click on" Help and Support " at very foot of screenpage. You can then file report with staff by completing the replies requested via the "Contact us "invitation. Help should arrive in a day or so.