As far as I know in chess, the Elo points has nothing to do with the way you win, I'm missing something?
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My point is that the person I was playing thought he would lose more points if he resigned. So he didn't resign or play on he just stopped playing and waited for his time to go to zero.
I don't think so
Sorry, not sure if you are agreeing with me or not?
Do you think the same as me, you lose the same points no matter how you lose?
AnthonyCG wrote:
In the 500+ year history of chess, such a rule has never been implemented.
You just played a sore loser.
Thanks for the sanity check.
I'm not sure he was a sore loser, I really do think he belived he was right. He was so sure that he would lose less points by timing out.
That is what I said in my first post, in chess, the Elo points has nothing to do with the way you loose, on time, checkmate or resignation is the same thing for this purpose.
Exal wrote:
I what I said in my first post, in chess, the Elo points has nothing to do with the way you loose, on time, checkmate or resignation is the same thing for this purpose.
So yes you are agreeing with what I said. Thanks.
i know this sounds like a daft question but how do you actually win "live chess" ? Like, i just played a game with someone it timed out on my turn. he only had 1.0 seconds left on the clock too. i had queen horse 2 pawns, him, just a rook and a pawn. Yet he won.... I tried to look around the faqs on how to win but no joy. Can someone help. thanks
Hello everyone,
I would just like to make a suggestion about displaying the rating changes(win, lose or draw) in a prominate place on the page while playing live chess. Also to make it clear that being checkmated, resigning or timing out make no difference to the points you will lose.
The main reason for this suggestion is that I was playing a game last night and was just taking the persons last pawn off the board when he basically told me he wasn't going to play on as he had lost. I asked him why he wouldn't resign and he told me he would lose more points from his rating if he resigned. Which I'm pretty sure isn't the case, please correct me if I'm wrong. I had to wait over 7 minutes for him to time out.
Now it's only 7 minutes of my life, I can live with that but if he does that to every player he is in losing too that is going to frustrate a whole lot of players. And if he thinks that to be the case then surely there must be others that think this too.