Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 02:14:53 10/08/99
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On October 07, 1999 at 23:35:03, Stephen A. Boak wrote: >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. The game is simply rated because the player AGREED(by actually playing)to the unfair and uneven situation. Further it's never at a blitz pace because a player is forfeited after 30 minutes on his clock have passed. So even if it was just the short time control of game in 60, the player would still have 30 minutes which is still rated as a standard time control by the USCF. > >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) It is different in kind because the player did not agree in this circumstance to play in the unfair curcumstance. You could actually show up at the tournament see 29 minutes off your clock, and by making no move have the game forfieted and no rating adjustment would occur under USCF or international FIDE rules.
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