@widget said
Hmmm.... @Ragwort

A number of IVV's long-term players were booted or have left on their own. Our 'removed' idiot Anglian managed to restructure the clan in the time he was trashing it... so who are these new players he brought on ... and are they equally idiotic.

I founded IVV in 2007, looking for a cozy place to build a casual chess confederacy. I blame myself for the whole nasty business. Too trusting, I am 😛

Widget it's not your fault. Your players will come back if you take the leader role even only for a while. Anglian was on my team, I booted him because he was a cheat. I told everyone in the forum, and leaders I played in matches that he was a huge cheat. Nobody listened to me. You and I never spoke about it so you did not know. Not your fault my dear friend.

He was a con man, a cheat, and the only thing that matters is Russ caught it and did the right thing. Thank God for Russ.

Your players love you and will follow you. Take over and boot who ever he brought in and explain to them nicely you are making changes. That is it. I have had to make changes yearly. It happens.

I saw the people who left. They will come back if you take over again. But it is not your fault. It started with my clan. I booted his butt out as we don't cheat, we don't sandbag. His real rating was over 2100 providing he was not using an engine. He wanted to take over my clan when I got sick. I did not give it to him. I have three people maybe 4 that would take over for me.

Anyway, there are no sour grapes, the guy tried doing it to me. I really tried to tell everyone. He did a lot of things that were not legal in the TOS. Move forward, forget him, and do what makes you happy. Don't listen to anyone who is throwing blame or anything negative towards you or anyone on your team. They are all good people. Get your people back in my humble opinion.

The guy was a cheat. Nothing else needs to be said about him. lstcry was or seemed to be a great supporter of him despite having the truth told to him.

Just be careful he does not try to come back as a 1200 player to join your team again. He is a huge sandbagger which is one reason i booted him.

I hope you take your team back. Then pick who you want to run it well.

All my best,
Michael
Vespin

@Very-Rusty
You are spot on Rusty. He is in my rear view mirror.

@moonbus
I would agree to that. But getting everyone to do that would be near impossible. What do you think my friend?

@lstcyr
the number of players has nothing to do it unless you are a one man leader.

@lstcyr
leave this to real leaders Larry. Stay in your negative points lane. This is over your head.

We are down to 3 full pages of clans. I believe that is around 50 to 60 clans, actually less if we don't count one player clans. We use to have 120 to 180 clans I believe.
Leaders are not playing matches, and not just with my team or Metallica, they are just sitting silent and if they do play, they argue over a 2 player vs a 3 player match as if that would have any impact at all.

Leaders playing favorites which this year is best example of that and feeding specific clans games / matches which equal points.

They help their friend or friends ONLY where it concerns matches with certain leaders.

My biggest issue is the leaders are not playing their players at all, and they are not picking up good matches that are in their queue.

How can any clan compete with leaders like this? We are more than 25% done with this season. It would be really nice if I did not have send PM's to leaders and beg them to take a match. This includes one player clans. Why even make a clan if you are going to complain or worse not play.

PLayers can look at our matches, we lose a lot, and we win a lot. All fair matches. There is one clan that almost has a perfect record in the win column. I'll let you guys figure out if that says "fair play" or not.

I know leaders that are sick of it all and next year I'm sure we will lose a lot of great leaders and clans. It's really a shame.

All my best to everyone regardless of the situation.

Michael

@medullah

lol I should have said, "at the end of the game I had only three moves then I would have mate." Meaning I had mate after playing for a while. I did not have mate in three moves from the start. People still try the Scholars Mate which you win in just a few moves but So far I have only fell for it once early on when I started playing.

@very-rusty said
How do you mate in 3 position?

How to Checkmate in 3 Moves in Chess: 7 Steps (with Pictures)
To checkmate in 3 moves in chess, start by moving your queen pawn to d3. Then, move your king pawn forward to e4, which will free up your queen. Finally, move your queen on the diagonal to h5, where you will have your opponent's king checkmated without having captured a single ...[text shortened]... e.

Unfortunately diagram can not be copied from the Site!

Some call it a fools mate. 🙂

-VR

that isn't the Scholars Mate is it?

@very-rusty said
I believe VESPIN would not test it out to begin with. Or were you trying to make a joke? 🙂 😛

-VR

Your spot on! No way I'm testing anything. lol

@suzianne said
Occaisionally, a player will request his account be removed, or a name change (this is rare), and the old name will get the same "Removed" treatment.

See Thread 194373

Thank you Suzianne!! Great example. I don't like it when I play someone several games and then that happens. Thank you for responding.


Michael

@moonbus said
I would not advise you to test just exactly how many ToS provisions one would have to breach in order to achieve 'strike-through Removed' status.





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lol No not me. I do all I can to be perfect with all the rules in the TOS. And The admins and Russ have been nice and all very good to me. I just stay in my lane. 🙂