When I'm playing on live chess, a lot of players abandon the game (I admit, I've done it a few times when I had to rush somewhere). I feel like the system for detecting bad sports is too lax and should be improved.
I disagree, if they continue to abandon games, they’ll be marked as a poor sport.
When I'm playing on live chess, a lot of players abandon the game (I admit, I've done it a few times when I had to rush somewhere). I feel like the system for detecting bad sports is too lax and should be improved.
I disagree, if they continue to abandon games, they’ll be marked as a poor sport.
I've abandoned like 7 games since I needed to go somewhere else and I haven't been marked yet.
How often is someone in such a rush that pressing the resign button is time they can't afford?!
Glamdring27 is right. Part of the sportsmanship of the game is understanding the proper etiquette and rules. If you have to be somewhere....resign. just abandoning the game shows disrespect to the other player(s). I see a number of games abandoned due to poor connectivity or a dropped internet signal, that doesn't make that person a poor sport. Also if a player times out due to lack of activity, well that not exactly the best play, but it is that persons time to do with what they want. Perhaps an algorithm to detect patterns of abandonment and that how they garner a poor sport award!! However there also has to be a policy of reversal of the moniker of poor sport through consist and even play.
The object here is to have fun and enjoy the game.
I think abandoning a game is in very poor taste. But this is the internet, and on the internet people engage in a great deal of bad behavior just because they can.
Well idk how many times I accidentally misclicked a time control or something, and to be honest, ifyou wanted to play a 5 min game but clicked 15|10 on accident, why would you play?
I then click abort, its' not that I'm a poor sport, it's just that I didn't wanna play the time control I micicked
Aborting, while still something that will get your account restricted if you do it often, is different from abandoning though. At least you don't waste your opponent's time just letting the clock run down if you abort immediately.
Aborting, while still something that will get your account restricted if you do it often, is different from abandoning though. At least you don't waste your opponent's time just letting the clock run down if you abort immediately.
Idk why I assumed aborting = abandoning
I used to check the opponents games history before making my first move. And after seeing they have almost every game >97% accuracy, I'll for sure abort against this kind of cheater.
But you'll get punished for doing this if you do it too many times. Annoying.
I don't see too much of a problem with just abandoning the game. It doesn't really take too long for the game to categorize itself as a loss anyway. It's just the same as resigning in me eyes. If i lose by one way or the other I don't really care. If i win one way or the other I don't really care either and the ratings will all sort themselves out automatically. Just take the win and move on.
I have had to suddenly leave a game for personal reasons, but I'm pretty sure I resigned and told my opponent why.
Being polite doesn't cost anything.
Statistically speaking, hundreds of chess players must have died mid game. Rapscallions
Rapscallions! What a great word! @baboonfish, way to go.
Agreed. I propose @baboonfish as the site's literary genius of the year
I have been marked as a "poor sport" due to too much aborting games within a two day period.
When I'm playing on live chess, a lot of players abandon the game (I admit, I've done it a few times when I had to rush somewhere). I feel like the system for detecting bad sports is too lax and should be improved.
I play short games so players ditching games isn't too much of a problem for me. But I think you are unlucky, I haven't encountered much of those players.
When I'm playing on live chess, a lot of players abandon the game (I admit, I've done it a few times when I had to rush somewhere). I feel like the system for detecting bad sports is too lax and should be improved.