Aborting a game when black:is that fair?

as the title says:is it fair?some action needs to be taken against this phenomenon. why are some people such ******* and can't play as black?

One must get used to play with both sides. Because it is not good to play with white everytime, because you can't get used to the black ones. So, the best thing to do is using both colors.

exactly!!these people don't understand that they're hurting their game as well as annoy other people

I also see a lot of people waiting until I make my first move as white, then aborting. I play 1. f4, so I get numerous aborts from people who don't want to mess with it I guess.

You are right, guys! :)

Some players just wimp out.

When it comes to abortion of chess games, I'm pro life. I think they should take that button off. If the game matches the seek you specified, suck it up and play nancy.

I say just leave it.  I would have said remove the abort button once white moves, but then you'll get those times when you think your opponent isn't there, then hit the "abort" button right when he's moved so you resign.  Maybe place the buttons in different places so this doesn't happen.  Aborting because you don't want to play against e4/f4/d4/etc. is not cool at all.

 If the game matches the seek you specified

 I don't know how many times I have aborted because A)  It (somehow) did not match the seek, or B)   I did not want a rematch with the same opponent and he rejoins the game anyways.

Players who abort because they have black should keep being assigned black until they actually play !  This would help I think.

one should only abort if they clicked on the wrong player by accident...or if an emergency comes up

no rematch can take place unless you click the rematch button...or do you mean he leaves and then comes back to the table?

good idea!I think it'd be easy to implement this in the programming.

What do you do when two players who both just aborted black get paired up?

one should only abort if they clicked on the wrong player by accident...or if an emergency comes up

Or when you picked someone who left his seek up and is no longer at the computer.

no rematch can take place unless you click the rematch button...or do you mean he leaves and then comes back to the table?

No, sometimes I'll play some people and they want a rematch but I reject it, put out my own seek, and they rejoin.  Other times it is because we both send out seeks and we get auto-paired.

The ICC server makes sense to me.  Once a seek is accepted, the clocks automatically start and neither side is ever able to abort.  Simple. Effective. No abortion issues :P (that sounds so weird)

That's pretty much what happens. The colour-assigning system doesn't count aborted games into your white:black, so a player who aborts a game in which he was assigned black should get black again. It might not always work (The system looks at your last ten games. So if the player is  6 white : 4 black and plays with a 5:5. If he aborts (he remains at his 6:4 ratio) and gets matched up with a 7:3, he will get white again, because the other player is even more imbalanced. But thanks to the matching system, 7:3 people are rare-you can only achieve that by playing unrated games, where you can still select colours. Therefore, in the vast majority of cases, a player who aborts as black, is still getting black his next game.)

I think people will learn soon that aborting doesn't do them any good, and the problem will die out.