davidegpc wrote:
Come on be compassionate chess.com staff, some people are old, they will never see the end of the tournament!
low blow !
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Yes! Or just a time limit for each round... 3days per move/a round must be completed in 45 days?
Sep 20, 2011
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#84
DramaticExit wrote:
Precisely Ozzie.. I can feel the trolls rounding now, so I'll finish up here. It's just.. well,
. . . blah blah blah . . .
. . . good old fashioned competition . . .
. . . blah blah blah . . .
. . . 'Real' chess tournaments . . .
. . . blah blah blah . . .
. . . without being cheated . . .
. . . blah blah blah . . .
. . . I'm done. ;)
Just another guy who defines a troll as anyone who disagrees with him.
No, vacation abuse is vacation abuse. Detection is in the eye of the beholder.
There's always a plausible (even if improbable) explanation, but there's no question that it happens, and often enough that it's a significant problem.
Sep 21, 2011
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#86
davidegpc wrote:
Come on be compassionate chess.com staff, some people are old, they will never see the end of the tournament!
+1
play another tourney!, most people playing here have plenty of time in there life anyway to play other games. At the end of the day who cares
Sep 21, 2011
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#89
erik wrote:
we're still working on the right algorithm for this. it's not simple...
look at erik, bringing the jokes... wait
Sep 21, 2011
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#90
MiamiSam wrote:
yes
i played in a tourney recently that had a day per move....that is the solution...the people making the tourneys should make it a day to a move...or lose.
when atomicaugust-- 30 moves for every period of 1 month---i have to agree---i sent a message to a guy i am playing in a tournament telling him guys like him shouldnt be in tournaments and that they slowed them down to where it isnt even fun for the people that do advance...we have been playing over 2 months and had 27 moves and 29 moves in our games at the point i wrote him...that is less than a move for every 2 days...bull crap.
because these tourneys are all doing that...having some people hold it up....i entered tourneys without looking at the time per move....now i will....if it says 2 days or more per move...well....i wont join it....i sure wish i hadnt joined the ones i am in....because of this problem.....that should have already been fixed.
A perfect example of what I said before-- the problem is people with poor reading comprehension skills (can't figure out what 3 days per move means) signing up for the wrong tournaments and then wanting the tournament and other players to change to suit them.
Sep 21, 2011
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#91
Let's face it. Some move-in-3-day games take 2 days to complete the whole game. Some take weeks. Some take months. Some could even take over a year.
Meh.
yes
The trick is to be winning in all of your games; that way you can never be accused of vacation abuse.
Wait, no - if you're winning then you'll be called a ch***er.
Be drawing in all of your games - that way the worst thing people can call you is Grischuk.
Sep 21, 2011
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#94
But Sam if they are playing and moving legal what is the problem? Be patient, burn somthing and listen to Ironman.
Sep 21, 2011
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#95
Simple solution. Enter a bunch of tournaments. You'll be so busy making all your moves that you won't have time to check all their status. And when you finally get a trophy, you'll have already forgotten about the tourney, so it'll be a pleasant surprise.
Sep 23, 2011
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#97
IMDeviate wrote:
MiamiSam wrote:
i will burn some...but listen to dr hook instead...lol....i asked the guy i am playing in the team match for draws...he gave me one...but never made it back to the other game. lmao....so that game still has just two moves so far...i am not patient and still have the draw pending....i dont want to play a wek long game...much less over two months and still only 27 moves in with just 8 pieces off the board....i just aint in jc....appreciate it though. i have offered draws with other slow players knowing i am losing points on my rating. it matters that little to me.
Offering a draw is rewarding the behavior. Why would you do that?
He's already addressed your question.
@artfizz While that is true, I think it's the least compelling argument around keeping the status quo. The other thing that can be relevant to the next round is the question of seeding. Obviously ratings can change because of continued games in the current round, and also ratings can change because time is passing. But in a perfect world, the next round would start as soon as all entrants are determined.
One question is that of re-seeding per round. For example, in an elimination tournament very often you'll know the exact path that you can take between round 1 and the final round. Tennis, baseball, American football, basketball, they all follow this format. For some reason the NHL playoffs do not. They re-seed each round. This is closer to how chess.com does it. They could implement something closer to a true knockout system. But I don't think it is worth the effort.