Advice on opponents who quit.

Hi, 

I seem to be playing a few opponents who try to time me out, or just stop playing etc.  When I look at their profiles there are often warnings about these individuals posted on there.

How do I not play them (once paired with them) without just aborting myself?  It seems unfair that if I don't want to play a "Runner" then I am in danger of violating fair play.

Many thanks, 

Simon

I mean as soon as I start playing them, is there a way to avoid these guys?

this is right there is no tool to actually report something like this,no tool to block a abusive player god knows when chess.com will come up with this.

I recently posted on one forum:-

Maybe chess.com should keep an indicator of sporstmanship, lower the score of the member more likely he is to disconnect or show other poor ethics.

The score can go up and down just like the ratings.

And the sportsmanship score should be displayed alongside the ratings.

What Say?

that is true bhavik

I recently posted about this on Google Play. I'm a very busy person, so when the little time I have to play chess is wasted by having to wait 10+ for the clock to wind down, it becomes quite frustrating. Similar to bhavik's system, make it so if there is excessive inactivity in multiple instances of defeat by time, then a player cannot participate in ranked games for a given period. This doesn't imply fault against a runner, perhaps they genuinely have a bad connection. However, regardless of whether the person is guilty of poor sportsmanship, something like this would provprovide the person stuck waiting with a protection mechanism. How? 1. runners have an incentive to resign if they would be unable to play ranked games 2. as an initial deterrent, make their loss of points double or triple when long inactivity occurs before a loss by time. 3. runners who are removed from ranked games will be playing in an environment where it didn't l doesn't matter if they have a tantrum. Put simply, people shouldn't be playing competitively if they become so emotionally compromised that they have a tantrum and resort to rage quitting; not because they don't have a right to compete, but because it's simply not healthy for them and it's not fair to people they do it to. Moreover, such a mechanism would be very easy to implement by chess.com. Yes, it's extra server-side processing but I say suck it up if that's your only concern. If working out an algorithm to handle it is a problem, then write to me. Don't get me wrong - I like playing here; however, I'm glad I don't pay for this service, although I feel sorry for those who do.

Better solution: I play somewhere else.

Play tournaments with fast players. :)