Hi there! I’m new to OGS so it’s quite possible I’m missing something. I understand that sometimes a ranked game is annulled because zero or very few moves were made before a timeout, but for some reason several of my legitimate-looking ranked games have not been factored into my rank. You can see this on my profile - I have 9 wins, but on my rank chart it says 6, and I noticed for some of these wins (all by timeout after between 13 and 50 moves) did not affect my rank - I believe the relevant games are:
I hope this makes sense, any guidance would be appreciated!
when someone plays a lot of correspondence games at the same time and stops using OGS, a lot of correspondence games timeout, it makes big incorrect impact on rating system. I heard these games stop affecting rank in this case.
Maybe your opponents were like that.
That looks possible - all three opponents have nothing but timeouts in their recent activity. It’s a shame if I can’t receive any improvement to my rank, especially in the 50+ move game!
Yep, that makes sense and is almost certainly what’s happening here. Pretty unfortunate that in my first couple of weeks playing on OGS I’ve run into this 3 times with 3 separate players! Oh well, onwards and upwards.
All three games definitely fall under the serial timeout rule for correspondence games, in which only the first timeout counts as a game. There are several long threads that argue about this long-standing policy.