When you withdraw, you will resign each of the remaining tournament games that you withdrew from, and therefore lose the appropriate amount of points.
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I think that means that in my situation I would lose points if I do the following: We are awaiting the start of the second round for which I have qualified. I do not want those games because I have too many games going on as it is. Even if we are only at the point before pairings for the second round are made, if I still withdraw, I lose the games I would have been playing?
AndTheLittleOneSaid wrote:
When you withdraw, you will resign each of the remaining tournament games that you withdrew from, and therefore lose the appropriate amount of points.
I don't think so, it looks that just not playing you loose on time and it doesn't change your rating...I really don't get it !
I noticed that also. I think a game doesn't registered in terms of ratings unless it has been started. Anyone in the know helps us out here?
Fairly sure a game doesn't affect your rating if it's less than 4 moves - definitely with live chess at least.
I just withdrew from a tournament in which I was ready to start the second round but no games were started. My rating didn't suffer.
AndTheLittleOneSaid wrote:
Fairly sure a game doesn't affect your rating if it's less than 4 moves - definitely with live chess at least.
In online corresondance games, this is true, however, only for games not being played for a tournament.
Philip6Esq wrote:
I just withdrew from a tournament in which I was ready to start the second round but no games were started. My rating didn't suffer.
I don't know what happened with him, but I withdrew before the next and final round had begun and it told me I couldn't because all the games were over (or something like that). Then when games were generated before any moves were played, I tried again, hoping I would have the same experience as was reported above. Unfortunately that didn't work....
Withdrew, 6 losses, minus 100+ points. And ironically it dropped me out of the range for the tournament I was trying to free up time to play!
I'm currently in a tournament that I am almost eliminated from. I am not a premium member, so I have to complete the tournament to join a lower- ranked one. If I withdraw, do I lose all of the rating points I would have lost if I had been checkmated or I resigned? Or do those games just disappear? I don't want to lose rating points, but the tournament I'm currently in is holding me back, and I don't have the money to be a premium member.