How exactly does the server decide who is an escaper?
The goal of the server is not to punish anybody. It is to make sure that you can adjourn a game from time to time with no problem, and also to make sure that players who walk away from lost games are counted as resigning them. To perform that goal, every time that you are the first player to leave a rated unfinished game, the server will put you into one of three groups: • Most people will be non-escapers. When you leave the game, it is marked as adjourned, and you can finish it later with no penalty. You are marked as the escaper for this game, but the mark is not visible to anybody and it will do you no harm; when the two players resume the game later, the mark is removed. Additionally, after 6 months, the game is dropped from the server’s memory and the mark erased. • If you already have some games where you are marked as the escaper, you may be forced to forfeit your oldest escaped game. This will happen if you have 5 escaped games, and you have fewer than 10 legitimate losses for
