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Subject: Re: An Incident on Playchess.com

Author: C McClain Morris, Jr.

Date: 14:54:47 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?

I no longer play at Playchess.com due to similar or worse incidents.
It's like paying for the sake of being abused, and that's something I can live
without.
mclain morris



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