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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 stubborn and correct the life/death status ...or if I get tired of that, I'd just leave.
I would not allow an incorrect result. Not getting the game finished is very annoying even if it's a free game (has happened to me), but well... it's just one game and the only real lasting annoyance is the fact that I won't be able to access the game-record through my game list.

Ekted?: There needs to be a system in place to at least? label escapers using some trusted system. I don't care if the games count against them. I don't want to waste my time playing if someone is going to quit when they start losing.

Velobici: Escaping and Escapers create fustration for the player winning the game. One doesn't get the reward/affirmation of actually winning, having the other player resign or scoring the game. Perhaps this fustration is the result of misunderstanding. We are not engaged in tournament games. We ar e playing for the pleasure of playing and to learn how to play better. An escaper is someone who is losing so badly that they can't bear to resign or to score the game. Perhaps its best to count it as a win in one's own mind and move on to another game.



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