I did make a effort to use automatch every time, however it often took more than 10 minutes to get a game, so I usually did something else while waiting like writing emails, playing moves in correspondence games or reviewing the previous blitz game.
Although my settings were “prefer handicap, up to 9 stones”, I rarely played with more than 1 handicap stone, people generally canceled the game when they saw several handicap stones.
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