Put Time Limit On Moves

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Cliff-Auto

For what must be the hundreth time, I had somebody refuse to move, hoping to pick up a cheap win by having me leave the game.  Had to wait 25 minutes (in a 30 minute game) while the time ran down - then with a minute left, presto, the guy suddenly moves.  What a jerk.

Why can't there by a five minute time limit on moves?  It would end this re-occuring problem, which really diminishes the fun of playing on this site.

notmtwain

Cliff-Auto wrote:

For what must be the hundreth time, I had somebody refuse to move, hoping to pick up a cheap win by having me leave the game.  Had to wait 25 minutes (in a 30 minute game) while the time ran down - then with a minute left, presto, the guy suddenly moves.  What a jerk.

Why can't there by a five minute time limit on moves?  It would end this re-occuring problem, which really diminishes the fun of playing on this site.

After only a few experiences like that, I gave up playing slow chess against random people here. The Slow Chess league is a good place to arrange good slow games. (Games are played here but arranged on another site.)

LitChessLady

I don't think a time limit per move would always be a good idea because at least for me sometimes it honestly takes me more than 5 minutes to think about which move I want to/should do, but at the time I have no idea that it took me that long to think about it.

However, I can understand your problem with that, though I would think that it would just be bad for the other person to not learn anything or improve their chess, it is not as if that would work in a tournament or something.

To the people who are hoping to win by the other person giving up, do you really have that much time to waste, and is an online rating so important?

Personally, I have resigned from some games I otherwise had at least an even chance of winning just because I have to go do something else at that moment.

glamdring27

So if someone wants to think for 5 minutes 1 second of their total 30 minutes at a key complex part of the game they just lose on time?

If you play 30 minute chess you commit to being there playing the game for 60 minutes.  If it ends sooner it ends sooner, but if your opponent wants to go and pick his nose for 29 minutes then come back and play bullet chess that is entirely his perogative.

Enforcing an arbitrary time limit per move when you already have an overall game time limit would not make sense.  Usually if you have 30 minutes you don't spread it evenly on your moves, you think longer at key points.

Cliff-Auto

I can understand wanting to think though moves.  But at some point you have to go forward.  Five minutes - or maybe seven - seems like a good compromise to weed out the jerks who just can't stand to lose.  Afterall, I've come to the site for the challenge of playing, and not to watch the timer running down.  And if I resign, my ranking suffers and I won't get games with people who are going to test my skills (or lack of) to the max.

Also - if you need to leave a game unexpectedly and it's early (ie., not too much time invested and no likely winner evident), just explain to your opponent and ask for a draw.  I've asked for and given it numerous times, with no hard feelings.

Ziryab
LitChessLady wrote:

I don't think a time limit per move would always be a good idea because at least for me sometimes it honestly takes me more than 5 minutes to think about which move I want to/should do, but at the time I have no idea that it took me that long to think about it.

 

 

 I agree that the proposed solution is worse than the problem.

Max-60

I don't understand this. I thought there was time limits per move. I have only recently started playing 30 min games, but I lost my first game because I was told I had lost on time, but there was only 20 minutes of the thirty gone, and I wasn't hanging back, I was being tolerably efficient for my skill level, so why did I lose on time?

IMKeto
Cliff-Auto wrote:

For what must be the hundreth time, I had somebody refuse to move, hoping to pick up a cheap win by having me leave the game.  Had to wait 25 minutes (in a 30 minute game) while the time ran down - then with a minute left, presto, the guy suddenly moves.  What a jerk.

Why can't there by a five minute time limit on moves?  It would end this re-occuring problem, which really diminishes the fun of playing on this site.

So you agreed to a 30 minute game, and are now complaining you had to wait 25 minutes?