Princess Alison: Like all but the occasional bad apple, you're no cheat. But Tiyulee has discovered that players who value people and honour less than rating points, even those scored in an empty way, can exploit the Fischer's clock.

For example, they'll offer a one hour game with a one hour bonus. A player, the victim, accepts in the belief that the game wlil be played in an hour or two and that the offer is from someone who's using the clock because they want swift action. Instead the cheat waits for the entire hour before making their move. This gives them another hour from the bonus. Even if the victim player plays immediately, the cheat will delay for a further hour. A few hours later the game has still hardly begun but, as Tiyulee says, life and/or sleep causes the victim to make a last move then reluctantly log out. An hour or so later the axe falls. Chalk up a shameful victory for the cheat.

There are very few people like that but all sites have one or two. Sociopaths like to play games too, even if they aren't the games that normal people play. At VogClub, there's a player who offers matches which have a total time of 2 minutes (it's a real-time site). This is for a 64-point match! Obviously you can hardly finish a single game in two minutes, let alone a 64-point match, so the whole thing is an exercise in who can click the fastest. Unsuspecting players (uncountable and I was one) come to the table without realising that it's got a ridiculous time limit. A few moves later having pondered on how badly the cheat is playing and how best to take advantage of the poor moves, the game is over. And it's a shock! The cheat also pretends to not know what's happening and acts all concerned. Then, when you cotton on (usually after another player has filled you in on this guy), the cheat gets all blase - "it was done to me, sob, sob, so I do it to others". Very pathetic.

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The other exploit that Tiyulee is exposing is where the cheat offers to play two games of a game type that has a bias in favour of one side, usually white. Pente, for instance, is won by white in 53% of games but only 47% for black. That's 13% more wins for white than black (53/47 = 1.127). The cheat offers two games with alternating colours but deletes the match in which he is black.

I'm explaining this one without having witnessed it myself. I haven't played any two-game matches and deleted one of the games, so I don't know if it's actually possible. It makes sense that deleting the first game will delete the match and that deleting the second is not allowed at all (otherwise what happens to the match?). So perhaps Tiyulee is referring to two separate single-game matches of one colour each.