Life In 19x19

man I have been running into jerks a lot recently..gotta summarize what i saw

1.escapers: close the game when they are losing without resigning..pathetic people

2.away from keyboarders: does not make a move when they are losing, I have to wait like 10 minutes for his time to run out, met a couple of these guys..apparently resigning hurts their pride or something

3.trash talkers:this aint street basketball or something..i met people who commentates their own moves like crazy..especially if they kill my group their trash talk will be all over my screen..

4:combinations of the above 3 types...like my other post

well after running into so many jerks I think I can cope with anything now..wrote this cuz Im bored

Just go ahead to become SDK. The jerks will become less naturally.

Even though karaklis is right, I just played a funny 9 kyu. In his user information he writes:
"I find it impolite to give up after counting the score. You are the only one who should take responsibility for your poor play. If the loss is so big you don't want it archivized, you should be able to see it in the earlier stage of the game. You should resign then."
But then he resigned just before filling dame ...

Akura wrote:Even though karaklis is right, I just played a funny 9 kyu. In his user information he writes:
"I find it impolite to give up after counting the score. You are the only one who should take responsibility for your poor play. If the loss is so big you don't want it archivized, you should be able to see it in the earlier stage of the game. You should resign then."
But then he resigned just before filling dame ...

Filling dame is an earlier stage than counting the score.

I rarely run into these types, even on automatch (which I use to play about 90% of my games). Before hitting 8k or so, it was more common.

On point (2) (the away-from-keyboarders), sometimes the player might be counting and looking for weaknesses to exploit. Sometimes it is rather obvious they are being rude. For example, when they've played like a blitzer until losing a huge group at W200, and then wait 20 minutes before moving again. I seriously consider escaping to avoid the total waste of time, but I usually do tsumego instead.

judicata wrote:On point (2) (the away-from-keyboarders), sometimes the player might be counting and looking for weaknesses to exploit. Sometimes it is rather obvious they are being rude. For example, when they've played like a blitzer until losing a huge group at W200, and then wait 20 minutes before moving again. I seriously consider escaping to avoid the total waste of time, but I usually do tsumego instead.

Yeah, sometimes I've taken a break for a smoke, a toilet break, getting a drink, changing a kids nappy, all sorts of reasons. I consider big long breaks within time controls to be completely ok, and if they time out, it happens, I'm not going to assume it's intentional to rile me.

Speaking of AFK, I've even taken a shower while playing in an on line tournament game. What else did they expect me to spend an hour of main time on?

I am unfortunate enough to know one of these people in real life. He is a member of the go club i attend at university and...he's not the most pleasant person. The sad part is, that it carries over into real life. We went to a tournament and he was getting sandbagged, which is common around his level(his level then anyway, although he was sandbagging himself a couple ranks or two) and he quickly realized he was getting sandbagged, and got frustrated. During the game he shouted, "B****!" This was pretty loud and embarrassing for our club. needless to say, his online behavior is worse. althought it does give me a lot of funny stories.

dedroid wrote:I am unfortunate enough to know one of these people in real life. He is a member of the go club i attend at university and...he's not the most pleasant person. The sad part is, that it carries over into real life. We went to a tournament and he was getting sandbagged, which is common around his level(his level then anyway, although he was sandbagging himself a couple ranks or two) and he quickly realized he was getting sandbagged, and got frustrated. During the game he shouted, "B****!" This was pretty loud and embarrassing for our club. needless to say, his online behavior is worse. althought it does give me a lot of funny stories.

I've met someone who "escaped" games at our club (I dubbed him an "IRL escaper"). We played a few games in which he got up and left or started doing other things without saying a word--at first I just assumed he had to use the restroom or something, but that wasn't the case.

judicata wrote:I've met someone who "escaped" games at our club (I dubbed him an "IRL escaper"). We played a few games in which he got up and left or started doing other things without saying a word--at first I just assumed he had to use the restroom or something, but that wasn't the case.

lol, that's certainly interesting. And probably even more annoying in real life, i imagine.

judicata wrote:

I've met someone who "escaped" games at our club (I dubbed him an "IRL escaper"). We played a few games in which he got up and left or started doing other things without saying a word--at first I just assumed he had to use the restroom or something, but that wasn't the case.

Oh dear, I remember when he swept all the stones off the board after losing at 9 stones...

Redundant wrote:Speaking of AFK, I've even taken a shower while playing in an on line tournament game. What else did they expect me to spend an hour of main time on?

Thinking, perhaps?

Redundant wrote:Speaking of AFK, I've even taken a shower while playing in an on line tournament game. What else did they expect me to spend an hour of main time on?

Are you talking about that game you played with me in the Young Kwon tournament? 0_o

Long main times in tournaments are perfect opportunities for feeding your tomagotchi and texting your parents. It's important to have effective time management.