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Escapers On KGS
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My opponent escaped, what can I do? Short answer: Wait five to ten minutes. Five is expected, ten is polite. Long answer: Use your Resume button religiously. Best of all, you can use the question mark button beside the player's name in the game offer window before the game starts. This will bring up their user info with the games list tab, where unfinished games are italicized. Thus, it becomes easy to avoid those who have many unfinished games. People with too many unfinished games lose their rank and all their games are pulled from the rating system. [I don't believe the games no longer count. They can't play rated games until they finish some. [penguin: This is according to wms, so I assume it is accurate -- 99% of the original page was direct quoting.]] This works fine. After all, if it won't affect your rating, then for somebody to escape from a lost game is just a very rude way to say "I resign". If your opponent swears at you and acts incredibly offensively, or keeps marking living stones as dead during scoring, you may decide you have no choice but to resign the game and never play them again. Your rank will recover, their reputation may not. Just remember, they know you won, you know you won, does it really matter all that much whether or not the server prints "you won" on your screen or not? Bill: I gather from this note that game records are kept for finished games, and that some people try to cheat by marking stones dead at the scoring phase. If they tried to do that to me, I would let them, and then appeal the result. The game record is good evidence. ;-) penguin: The admins are not interested in refereeing games. Bill: I still appeal. :-) If people really are trying to cheat in this way, the message will get through.
Zarlan: I'd be stuborn and correct the life/death status ...or if I get tired of that, I'd just leave. This is a copy of the living page "Escapers On KGS" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |