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Non Move Tournament Penalty

Looking for feedback or arguments.

If a person doesn't move during a game in a tournament no rating points should be deducted... only a 0 added to the tournament score.... or something along those lines.

Thoughts?
It's a penalty to avoid this happen again. When you don't play, you steal time to your opponent, this have to be punished.
In the grand scheme of things, a single loss (or win) won't affect the rating of a person who has played hundreds of games and will play hundreds of additional games.

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