This is one of the two games to which my opponent in this game, Jerzy, challenged me into. This was played at the Queen Alice Internet Chess Club. It is a site for correspondence chess only. I have been enjoying my games there quite a bit because I seem to do really well there usually as my current rating of 2199 would suggest when comparing it to my other similar ratings. However, in the last few months I have been really annoyed by one thing there and it is the fact that there are no automatic timeouts in tournament games. So if one player decides not to win a tournament game on time and that opponent is never going to be online again, then that will freeze the tournament forever. One of my tournaments has been stuck because of that for several months now. Of course the players involved do not have any chances of advancing to the next round, so they do not really care if those games are never finished... Because if they can't have the win, no one can... I do not understand people like that at all. I have even send messages to these two players who are prolonging the tournament unnecessarily and asked if they could claim their wins, one of them even replied to me and said that he would do that but nothing happened. Some time passed and I asked him why are those games still going and he replied it must be because he made the claims on his phone and for some reason they had not been registered, so he would do that again. Still nothing happened. To my latest request and suggestion that he would do that on a computer, I got no reply anymore. I guess it is useless to try and reason with some people. The other player did not even reply to my message, so that is hopeless thing at the moment. I also made a forum topic there that there should be automatic timeouts in tournaments but that had no effect either. I guess person or persons who have been taking care of the site in the past, have not done anything for it recently and have maybe disappeared all together.
On a more positive note, I got my standard rating at FICS up from 2127 to 2160 couple of days ago! It is definitely my highest rating at FICS and it starts to get close to my highest rating ever on any site, currently my highest rating resides in Queen Alice Internet Chess Club. Oh yes, almost forgot to mention that despite my loss, I did not lose any rating points due to the game below because my opponent has a provisional rating still. I have added one mate in two, three mate in threes and one mate in seven today.
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