Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 06:51:33 11/13/04
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On November 13, 2004 at 09:00:40, David H. McClain wrote: >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? Road rage perhaps. If you were winning, he was probably trying to erase the game from his records when you interfered by offering an adjourn/abort. I don't like the 3+0 games although sometimes that's all that's available to play. My experience with 3+0 games on playchess is that the faster computers have a BIG advantage over slower computers. That advantage is not as big with 5+3 games. So those who really want to up their rating, and have a fast computer, engage mostly in 3+0 games. So naturally if they lose a 3+0 game, they might get upset especially if your rating is much lower.
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