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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