Erik - I found a bug most people would not report!

One of my opponents timed out in two of the games I played against him. My rating should have increased from 1922 to 1936 (1922 + 7 + 7) but for some reason my rating increased to 1942 even though my highest rating is correctly reported as 1936. But that's not the end of the story. The second game I played against this opponent disappeared. It's no longer in my current or past game list. If it's not too much trouble please subtract 6 points from my current rating.

By the way, here's the game that disappeared (I found the link in my internet browsing history): http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=40670662).

Incidentally, I just "won" this other rated game and my rating did not increase. It should have increased by 9 points (1936 + 9 = 1945).

(Luckily for my opponent, his rating remained intact.)

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=40782805

only one move so doesnt count

That explains the outcome of my last game. But what about the other 2 games I discussed? They were several moves long.

Your highest rating is now showing as 1942 - so there may have been a small delay before it was updated.

Presumably you determined that you would get 7 points for each win by looking at Show rating adjustment (in the Details tab)? This is changing dynamically throughout the game; if your opponents won other games immediately before you beat them, their rating would go up - and this adjustment would go up as well (assuming your rating is lower than theirs). The rating adjustments (for win/lose/draw) are not retained once the outcome of the game is known - so there is no way of checking what they should have been.

Also, as soon as you won the first of the two games by timeout, this would have changed both your own and your opponent's ratings - and the rating adjustments for the second game.

Your explanation seems logical if you ignore the numbers and the time frame between the first time out and the second time out. It also does not explain the disappearance of the second game.

Let's analyze the numbers and the order of events.

My rating right before the first time out was 1922. My opponent's rating was 1872. After the first time out my rating increased by 7 points to 1929 and my opponent's rating decreased by 7 points to 1865. No problems so far.

Less than 5 minutes later and with no new completed games for either myself or my opponent, the second time out took place. You might argue that since we are now looking at different scores the rating adjustment would have been different, but since the score difference between my score and my opponent's score was at that moment 14 points higher than it was before the first time out, the rating adjustment would have been either 7 points or less, but certainly not 13 points. Remember, the weaker your opponent the less points you get for beating him. You might also argue that perhaps my opponent's rating increased between the first and the second game, but this is not reflected in his Recent Games list. The first timed out game is still reflected as his last game and the second timed out game is nowhere to be found.

After the second time out my highest rating correctly increased by 7 points to 1936 but my current rating incorrectly increased by 13 points to 1942. Likewise, my opponent's rating incorrectly decreased by 13 points to 1852. Notice that neither myself nor my opponent completed any games between the first and the second time out.

So you are wrong, this is not normal, this is likely a glitch or a bug of some sort. Also, you still have not explained where the second timed out game went or why when I go to see my opponent's profile it is reported that my games against him consist of 1 win, 0 loses and 0 draws.

I'll keep the extra points. I don't care.

attaboy

Can a staff member tell me why this game never made it into my recent games list?

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=40670662

anyone?

I don't see it either, no idea

i take offense to the title of this thread.

you shouldn't.

Kohai, what do you think about this issue?