Ratings

When are you starting to give the double ratings increase for checkmating your opponent?

huh?  that sounds like a bad idea.

 Indeed!

The reason why this might be a good idea is to discourage players from dragging the game out unneccessarily.  If a player actually drags a game all the way out to checkmate, then the punishment could be loss of rating points.

What in the world?  Punishing players for taking the game to checkmate?  I get really confused as to how someone has an 1800 rating and still can't quickly deduce all the flaws in such an idea.  And how this idea lacks any solution he proposes it would solve.

Agreed! Awful idea. The point of ratings isn't to be a reward or punishment for sportsmanship (that said, not resigning is NOT bad sportsmanship at all), its supposed to be a tool to help you track your performance!

Double points for checkmating is a serious perversion of the intents of this system, imho.

Laughable.  As if some how there should be different catagories of victories - whether you get knocked out or throw in the towel makes no difference to the final result.  Just plain silliness.

I think the correct answer is: Never!!

I think the proponents are irritated with the idea of people winning points from time outs when they are in a losing position? 

Leading them to try to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If we went to ouble ratings for actual checkmate the "clingons" would most likely resign or timeout one move before mate and essentially thwart the idea while punishing those who really play it out to learn

IF I ever decide to play on here, I'm going to play it out to the end (at least most of the time) to learn, since I haven't ever played before. They can dock me all the meaningless rating they want.

Playing the game out to see how it is done or to see if your opponent knows how it is done is perfectly reasonable.

So you can find a competitive game.

When are we going to start giving half rating increases for people who complain that their opponent won't resign?

We would begin to assume that people with lower ratings are possibly just big whiners.  That's not a fair correlation.  heh.  We need a spirit rating for that.  lol

what????

I think it's a grand idea.

And maybe triple points for a forced 3 move combination. And extra bonuses too for sacrifices, and aesthetics.

LOL!!! 

Ummm... no.

You never win or draw a game by resigning.  The sheer number of games I have seen end in a stalemate, when one side was bare King vs King and Queen is staggering, even among fairly strong players.

I will always give my opponent the opportunity to screw up.  I will always force him to play accurately in ALL phases of the game, not just the part that he is enjoying.

As long as there IS a game, there is always chance of your opponent making a mistake, being "made" to throw a game in because you may be losing (but haven't yet lost) is not good sportsmanship... If you are running in a race do you simply stop running because someone overtakes you?....no you keep on their heel as close as you can and hope they stumble..... the game is not over until you see that checkmate ... just as a race is not done until someone gets to the finish line....makes winning so much more special IF you get lucky,( heck I did, took someone's queen with 4 pieces left on the board)... what is this weird world coming to with all these silly ideas? Whatever happened to the human "fighting" spirit, to throw in the towel because you are losing? Hope my kids grow up better than this.