Author: David H. McClain
Date: 06:00:40 11/13/04
I was playing a 3 0 game on Playchess.com a few days ago, and the operator happened to be one of their sysops. With 12 seconds left in the game, his program refused to respond. I made a valid attempt to abort/adjourn and this was fruitless as usual, and the game ended. When he reconnected, I get a message "Thanks for locking up my machine! I was doing ok until I played you." Say what? A series of chat messages went back and forth, and I told him "Like I waved a magic wand from 3,000 miles away and locked your machine up?" I continued the chat and told him "If Playchess would fix the useless adjourn/abort feature, this wouldn't happen." To which his reply was "Are you getting smart with me?" One of his parting statements was "I only care about FAIR play." Gimme a break...... How can Playchess engage as sysop like this?
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