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(Message started by: chessandgo on Jan 7th, 2007, 9:37am)

Title: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by chessandgo on Jan 7th, 2007, 9:37am
Hi,

sorry to kerdamdam for timing out during the vacations, and to my other opponents for getting very low on reserve.

Here is my question : I apparently timed out against UltraWeak, but the game was still openable, so I played my move and got 5 hours of reserve (so I guess I had timed out 19 hours earlier).
Do the rules allow a player to go on playing up  to 24 hours after timing out ? If not I can resign the game and apologize to UltraWeak (who might ultra-beat me anyway :))

Title: Re: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 8th, 2007, 3:00pm
Interesting... Do you mean your reserve time was showing -19 hours before you moved, and after you moved it showed 5 hours?  Or was your reserve time showing 0 before you moved?

Title: Re: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by chessandgo on Jan 8th, 2007, 4:59pm
the reserve button was empty ... I guess it meant 0 ^^

Title: Re: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by UltraWeak on Jan 8th, 2007, 8:56pm
As far as I know if you used reserve time during a move, the reserve time will not increase after you made the move, that means you actually still have 5 hours on reserve before you made the move.

.. and I don't think you need to worry about losing that game to me now  :)

Title: Re: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 8th, 2007, 10:42pm

on 01/08/07 at 16:59:57, chessandgo wrote:
the reserve button was empty ... I guess it meant 0 ^^

Hmmm... I'm more inclined to suspect you had 5 hours left and it didn't display properly than I am inclined to suspect that you were 19 hours overtime and were accidentally given an extra 24 hours.

Title: Re: continuing a timed-out game ??
Post by chessandgo on Jan 9th, 2007, 10:07am
ok, thanks for enlightening a slow man :)



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