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Topic: How to behave on QueenAlice.com
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How can you cheat on Queen Alice.com
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To answer Red49:
1. Have someone not you tell you what move to play.
2. Using an engine like Deep Shredder 9/Fritz/etc to help you make moves, that's just wrong and defeats the purpose of playing on here. You can tell who uses a computer by:
1. The highly inflated ratings they have, and never seem to make a mistake, of course if an IM get's an account here and he has alot of time to think about a move he may be indistinguishable from a computer to a digree, but he'll likely play strong human moves and plan's that a computer simply can't find so you know he'd be legitimate.
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I claim games because it is allowed. I send reminders because it is allowed. If my opponent has real life problems, it won't matter to them what their ratings are, and if they are just plain lazy, then good for them. If you don't want to receive reminders, turn them off. Or better yet, manage your number of games. If you love chess so much, you won't mind receiving a reminder for something you should be doing in the first place, which is, make a move. Besides, finishing games helps to conserve server space. Too many cooks can really spoil the broth.
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How could finishing games help conserving server space?? 
Would you kill people if it was allowed? Scary stuff, doing things just because they are allowed..  
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| How could finishing games help conserving server space?? |
I think it has to do with archiving. Instead of having computer resources regard long-standing games like timed-out ones as active, they may be marked inactive and filed and compacted accordingly. Resources (server space and processing power) can then be devoted to "legitimately" active games, like those that are not timed-out. I am not that techie, but I had been around friends who are, and got a whiff of an idea from them.
| Would you kill people if it was allowed? Scary stuff, doing things just because they are allowed |
There are several ways by which I can reply to this, so bear with me.
1. If we don't claim timed-out games, why place time controls in the first place?
2. If you are playing in OTB, and your opponent is having a headache and having a problem making a move, will you not claim the game if his flag fall down? Time controls are just a part of the game. The benefits of claiming timed-out games outweighs the cons. Not claiming games as advised opens things up to abuse. Some players who are clearly losing may decide not to end the game and resign. On the other hand, claiming timed-out games is well within the agreed upon rule that is part of the game.
3. Lastly, please consider the context of what I said in my earlier post, and do not extend it to some generality that obviously I did not intended it to be. Some things will remain forbidden as a principle whether or not it's agreed to be allowed because the harm is quite obvious.
Some people do not claim timed-out games for satisfaction purpose. That's up to them. But if the idea is that they think their rating becomes "pure" because of it, then statistically they may be misled. Primarily because changes in one's rating has to consider the rating of your opponent, who may have claimed a timed-out game. But like I said, it's a personal choice, but definitely not something to be passed around as a "rule".
I acknowledge the intent of starting this post is to make QA a better place to be and to play chess. That's why I offer my two cents worth in the hope that we do not burden ourselves unduly with rules. Sometimes less is more.
I realize that there may be some language gap in terms of how we construct sentences and how they are perceived in the Net, so I apologize if ever my earlier post was a source of contention.
Thanks and more power to QA
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