Can anyone Explain that??

look, and tell me http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/tournament/tournament.jsp?trnid=chess.ch.5.2.2

Due to his low rating mirror_man gets 2 handicap points:)

Must be some error. I am sure the admins will correct it soon.

If you mean that ypercube lost after just three moves, it might be that he lost because of lack of time and no vacation left... just an idea :)

Here's an attempt to explain what happened during the last 24 hours:

I had used all 20 of my vacation days from 10th April. Due to a bug that had also occured during last year (2003) I received a 21st vacation day at the 19th of April. How did I get it? I just let a game (a losing one) to reach 0 hours and littlegolem gave me another vacation day, increased the time of all my games 24 hours and sent me a message saying I had -1 vacation days left. (yes, that's minus 1 ). But that's a known bug that hasn't been fixed.

In the game with mirror-man (and another against Nina in another championship) another bug was at work! Sometimes when the first player (like mirror did) makes his first move after many days, the clock of the 2nd player (me in that game) ticks also, so when it was my turn to play I had only a few hours left. I didn't log for those hours and I lost these 2 games (against mirror and Nina) from time. Remember I had no vacation days left. (no means 0 or -1, whatever you like).

I messaged Richard about it and he was kind enough to "unfinish" the games and I made moves. My clock wasn't reset to 240 but I had enough time, ok. As you have observed however the 2 points that mirror took from winning me were not undone. The same thing happened at the game with Nina as you can see here. I'm sure Richard will fix it.

Another strange thing happened after these and I noticed tonight (about 12 hours after the above happened). I received two messages from golem saying that I used 1 vacation day and I now have 19 days (and the second message said I now have 18 days left! ). I checked my vacation days and yes, I now have 18 days left. I'm not sure if Richard made this temporarily so I not lose other games from time or if it is another bug. But I think that my vacation days be withdrawn. I've used them already and I shouldn't have 40 while others have only 20 every year.

ypercube

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