I've been running into a lot of players lately that might make one or two moves, then just abandon the game altogether. As someone who is tryingto boost his score on ten minute games, I feel that having to wait for half the time to elapse before it's declared abandoned is brutal. Is there some sort of method for figuring out what an ideal timeout should be or is it purely arbitrary? Because I feel like half the game's duration is too much .
Half the remaining time is a big improvement over letting the whole time run out.
It was only put in place a few years ago after a lot of players made their views known. Some people still come on and complain that they can't get up from the board knowing they have the full time control to use as they see fit.
I've been running into a lot of players lately that might make one or two moves, then just abandon the game altogether. As someone who is tryingto boost his score on ten minute games, I feel that having to wait for half the time to elapse before it's declared abandoned is brutal. Is there some sort of method for figuring out what an ideal timeout should be or is it purely arbitrary? Because I feel like half the game's duration is too much .