Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 20:35:03 10/07/99
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NOTE also--in USCF tournaments when a player shows up late to play a scheduled round in a tournament, his clock will normally already have been started by an opponent who did show up on time. There will be elapsed time on the late person's clock. Results of these games are also rated by USCF, even if the late player has to play his moves at a much faster than normal rate, even perhaps at 40 moves in 5 minutes (virtually a blitz game!, which are not rated by USCF). Despite the potentially wide disparity in available times on players's clocks, when one player is late, the game is never-the-less played and the results are rated for both players. This scenario shows that there are many shades of incapacitation or handicap, caused by 'random' events outside of the games themselves, that adversely affect the equal terms of play (I don't discuss 'fairness', merely the playing under exactly the same conditions, clock, etc, i.e. 'equal terms'). To give a penalty--rating a properly paired round even when the player does not show up--is different merely in degree (not in kind) from situations when the player shows very late and is severely handicapped by the available time. When the external adverse conditions cause a player to be extremely late, or to not show at all, the effect of rating the game is nearly the same (an actual point loss versus a very likely point loss--due to outside conditions and not the players play under 'equal' terms). --Steve Boak
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