i’m not blogging, i’m just kinda typing stuff
i don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, i don’t mean to be blogging, but there is crap i wanna say, about chess, and no one would really understand it but the chess community, so i’m typing it here.
here is one small problem i have with ICC. it’s not really a problem, i just don’t understand the reasoning.
i play a 1400 in a 10 minute game. Ten minutes is a pretty decent amount of time to think, especially for your first few moves. he fucks up on move three, i pounce, he offers a draw, abort, draw, adjourn, abort, finally by move 12 when he is a bishop and knight down, he resigns. and i get a message saying “it was humptyfruntz’s 1st blitz game,” so i dont get any points, no rating adjustment for me. but if i lost i would lose points quicker than a porn star losing clothes in a movie.
why is this?
and this isnt’ the first time it’s happened. not like i give a fuck about “ratings” online (or in real life for that matter), but, if i beat someone, shouldn’t my shit go up a point or two? even if its their first blitz game?
i don’t get it, i dont understand the reasoning behind that.
it pisses me off, but its not enough to keep me from wasting many hours of every day playing blitz on ICC though.
first said,
January 24, 2009 at 7:52 pm
FIRST POST
CMoB said,
January 24, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Okay, so keep on “not blogging” then
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Nate said,
January 25, 2009 at 7:07 am
Please keep just kinda typing stuff. The way you type it is fun to read, and I think it would be fun to read regardless of the topic.
chesstiger said,
January 25, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Don’t know ICC’s policy but it seems indeed unfair that you can lose ratingpoints but not win.
And just as the rest i advise you to keep typing stuff.
blunderprone said,
January 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
…AND another thing… at OTB tournaments, you get paired with numbnutz… and they decide not to show. You have to wait teh obligatory hour before claiming the victory. Some TD’s will doc the idot with a fee but I want USCF ratings. These games don’t get rating adjustments yet.. you go on to play someone else with the same score next time and probably busting your chance for playing white.
I think its time for a rule change for no shows. Lose rating points at a higher rate for having no balls to show up.
John aka Endgame Clothing said,
January 26, 2009 at 11:06 am
Yeah, that does suck…especially losing points if you lost.
(And each little uncapitalized letter you type is a little bit of chess happiness for us all)
likesforests said,
January 26, 2009 at 12:12 pm
blunderprone: – Agreed. When I withdraw early from a tournament a few weeks ago, I told the TD (before he did the pairing) so nobody was left in that boat.
likesforests said,
January 26, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Oh, yeah, keep on typing whether or not it’s blogging. What’s my Hardcore Pawnography bumper sticker gonna be worth if nobody knows who you are?
Anonymous said,
January 27, 2009 at 1:46 am
Youre wrong – you would not have lost points if you’d lost.
It’s the same OTB. If a guy plays in a tournament, only plays one game (against you), you wont gain/lose points regardless of result.
Liquid Egg Product said,
January 27, 2009 at 9:48 am
If it’s their first blitz game, they have no rating. There’s no way to even estimate how good of a win/loss it is.
In Yahoo! chess (not that I recommend it necessarily), they used to start everyone at 1200, so it wasn’t an issue.
BTW: if typing stuff in a blog doesn’t count as blogging, I don’t know what does.