Escaping

   

Escaping is the practice of abandoning a game on an Internet Go server by disconnecting when one is losing in order to avoid recording a loss in the game. Aside from being exceedingly rude and inconsiderate to your opponent, it usually doesn't work; after a set amount of time, the server will usually dock the disconnector with a loss anyway.

See also

Escaper

Someone who quits a lost game on a go server instead of resigning it. This is considered rude because it leaves the game unfinished, thus depriving the opponent of her/his victory.

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. 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.

On KGS, people with too many unfinished games lose their oldest escaped games.

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?


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