Yesterday I read a message from somebody complaining that when someone achieves a poor position they "go on vacation".  Today I was playing a game in a fairly poor position, but was able to think up a trap for his queen.  Boom! He's on vacation.

 

I would like some assurance that by going on vacation from one game, he goes on vacation from all of his games simultaneously and automatically.  I do not appreciate poor sportsmanship and will not tolerate a system which allows mechanics to interfere with game outcomes.

 

For that matter, it would be nice to have to schedule vacation days in advance and note the status on all games.

 

If you are already doing this, my apologies.  Otherwise, I'll try to find that poster from yesterday so we can perhaps start a blacklist of vacation abusers and try to publicize it.

Oh get over it, there have been so many complaints about people going on vacaction, because "they are afraid of losing out to whom they are playing" . So what if they play in a way you don't like 'DON'T PLAY WITH THEM AGAIN'. People use their vaction time for untold reasons, not just to save themselves from losing, after all they still have to come back from vaction and finish the game.  So it takes time, but learn no to play that person again, if you are 100% sure they used their vaction time just to make you fed up.

Hence the proposal for a black list.

 

Get over it I will, but remember that using this time control of 33 days per move it could be 2017 before a game ends!

 

If you want assurance of good manners, perhaps you need to operate under the auspicies of a governing body like the USCF of FIDE which enforces it.

You can always resign games that take too long, but may I ask who are you to blacklist someone, because YOU don't like the way they play. Surely we all have enough savvy to deceide who we want to play a seond time,without other people imposing their standards on us. 99.9% players I have played on this site have good manners already. We have the owner of Chess.com to ensure we are mindful of being nice to other, and having good manners.

Selangor wrote: Try to play on with the other games and ignore this one for the moments. Sooner or later, he/she still had to make the move. There are plenty of (new)games to start.

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Hear, Hear.

i think this is a fair point as it is a major annoyance. and this is why people now cannot go on vacation without having moved in all of their games. people used to go on vacation for ALL of their games and then only come back and play the games they are winning. but now they cannot - they must play all of their moves in all of their games.

however, creating a blacklist is unecessary. you can just take a look at somebody's past behavior now. how much vacation they have used, their timeout ratio, etc. 

what we need is more courteous behavior from those who are losing, and more tolerance from everyone :)

here! here!

or is it hear, hear!? does anyone know the origin of this saying? i know its off topic but i couldnt resist, just curious

erik wrote:

i think this is a fair point as it is a major annoyance. and this is why people now cannot go on vacation without having moved in all of their games. people used to go on vacation for ALL of their games and then only come back and play the games they are winning. but now they cannot - they must play all of their moves in all of their games.

however, creating a blacklist is unecessary. you can just take a look at somebody's past behavior now. how much vacation they have used, their timeout ratio, etc. 

what we need is more courteous behavior from those who are losing, and more tolerance from everyone :)

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 What if I make a move in all my games then try to go on vacation but someone responds very quickly and it is once again my move?  Can I still go on vacation?

Mind real vacations are ok.  But if so, the least you can do is notify your opponent, "hey next Tuesday I'm going on vacation for five days."  As is, the guy can even take a full 72 hrs to move and that's clear enough from the time constraint you go into the game with.

 

What I have a problen with is in the heat of a game, without warning,  the moment before when my position looked lost he was happy enough to blitz it out. Not even a quick "got to go!"

 

When I play, I have to go at odd intervals and mysteriously show up when I can, but I've tried to be up front about it.  Oh well, u'm now up to speed on the mechanics ...

If an opponent makes a move right when you try to go on vacation then you should get a notice that an opponent has made a move and you will be able to go back and play your move and then try to go on vacation again.

Recently my computer broke. The repair was free, but I couldn't play seriously from work, so "vacation" was really quite a good thing to keep the games going until I got back.  At first it seems counterintuitive, but vacation really seems to be useful in ways I had not imagined.  If someone does seem to panic to not deal with a poor position, try to be forgiving.  There areally don't seem to be many people doing that.

I don't understand the bigh deal of people going on vacation. It can only last so long. The game won't change. If you are winning based on skill, what are you fearing? Need instant gratification much? Folks deserve to not be "timed out".

I try to work my game schedule so as to not have to use vacation, but is has happened and the 3 games I have timed out in were because I was trying to be "nice" to the other players and played the time game.

 

Life is too unpredictable to schedule vacation time on the internet game boards.  Chill people

When I first joined up I hadn't noticed any vacation provision.  All of a sudden a 3 day time control became a month and a half time control unannounced--potentially three months at the end of a year/beginning of another.  So I foamed at the mouth a bit.  kind of like an old Monty Python routine where each salesman at a matress store modified information about the matresses by a different constant, "so when I say that a matress is two feet long, it is in fact sixty feet long".

On the whole I kind of wish the time controls and everything else would be 100% compatible with US Chess postal rules.   think it would be really cool to play valid USCF postal rated games (if my opponent is a USCF member too).  In the context of time controls that would mean that you would have 30 days to make 10 moves, making it more like time controls I have grown accustomed to over the board. 

I have become quite content with the way they do things here, though.