Slow Players

How about creating a list of 'slow' players?

There are no slow players but slow tournaments. Perhaps you're talking about timeout players.

You mean people who move slowly in daily games? There are way too many of those to list every single one of them.

Wow, in my past have played against a guy from Mexico that was playing 2200 games. Eventually he cracked and timed out of nearly 400 games within a few hours and his rating plumeted from 1400+ to below 800. Two other opponents also had over 1000+ plus games and one i am currently playing has 680. They slow down tournament and club matches. Previiously asked chess.com twice to limit number of games to 100. They are still thinking about it. There are certain players who play fast when they have advantage in game and play extra slow when losing in hoping person would time out. Some differences in time zones like Asia vs Americas are naturally slow due to 12-14 hour time differences.

I mean players who make a move once every 3 days for instance, in my experience there aren't that many but the few there are spoil tournaments.

You can arrange the number of moves per day when you create the tournament. And vacances allowed or not.

I know but I'm talking about those that only move when they absolutely have to.

That would be hard to resolve since it states 3 days a move. Best way to resolve that is make 1 or 2 day club matches. You can't force someone to move. But sometimes these people time out by playing it too close as you know in life work and family issues always arise.

It's the players that always play slowly I'm talking about.

I have a pretty good memory of players who are annoying slow players. I try to avoid them in Club or Tournament matches. For instance in tournaments they have faster games based on person average speed per move. Like 3 hours, 6 hours or 12 hours per move. They wouldn't even be allowed to join if they cannot meat criteria. I average 33 minutes per move, which is too fast asit use to be 29 minutes. Some people like to play fast and others take their time. Club matches have harder restrictions from previous forum stating they don't allow "NO VACATION" rule. You can check your opponent style in their profile page by looking at average time per move. Anybody over 8 hours is a tortoise unless they are halfway around the world. Looks for players under 3 hours average per move for quicker chess.

I think that the limit should be 500, because I for example have had 90+ games and still moved quickly -- it just depends on the amount of time you have. Better would be if there was a ratio; average time per move and games, and that would have a limit.

That's why they are undecided on number of games. Guess most people have to voice their opinion.

Like you just did.

If you organize a tournament, you can limit access to players with a certain (maximum) time per move ... (and of course you can reduce the time to move to 2 or 1 days ... But then you should consider to allow vacancy at least, if somebody really cannot move for 1 or 2 days ...

But in general, I think you cannot blame somebody if he takes one or two days for a move which needs consideration (real consideration ...) So I would not call somebody who has an average of 9 or ten hours a tortoise ... But 24 hours in average (!) really might be the limit for a player whom I would not call "slow" ...

a list of slow players from your club, or your friends list, or what?

From whereever.

Some of my colleagues from work, friends and opponents are tortoises. Basically the first 5-10 moves in most chess games are predictable unless someone throws a gambit at you and they study it like it is the end of the world...lol

he means people who move slowly in blitz games for example

not slow in daily

like me