delaying tactics

Hi , What can you do about someone who is hopelassly lost and spins out the (long) game hoping you'll not notice him moving and therefore get into time trouble. As I write this my opponent is playing a move every ten minutes . He will be checkmate next move and he is just running down the clock . I would like to get on with my life. What suggestions does anyone have against these frustrating tactics by bad losers ?  

What is the time control of the game you agreed to?

Block them so you never have to play them again.

Double bag it.

The time con trol was 30 mins each. He was already hopelessly lost after ten minutes or so then delayed about ten minutes before replying hoping I wouldn't notice and therfore lose on time . However I was keeping an eye out while reading the forum and replied instantly with a wry comment  'no I am not asleep'. I then put him in a 'checkmate next move' situation and he just let the twenty minutes run down without resigning thus forcing me to hang around for nothing . This is at best annoying and probably just plain cheating.

  Western Burn what does double bag it mean ?

 New topic - has anyone else come across players with a rating in the 700 range that play good exact chess . This seems suspicious to me . I now reject challenges under about 200 less than me.

The guy in your first example is probably a jerk. Maybe it took him 10 minutes to figure out he was lost and then he moved. Letting his time run out was just rude. Unfortunately, there's really nothing to be done -- other than never playing this guy again.

This is precicely why I don't play long time controls (i.e. more than ten minutes per side) in Live Chess.

It would be great if a maximum time per move setting was implemented as an optional time control in Live Chess to augment the "time per side" and "increment per move" settings that are currently available.  This would allow us to set up longer games without having to worry about this kind of thing.

i am not so good, but i just start to play here. And here I play this guy, start really bad, then play him off the board. And he doesn't have the grace to make his last move before mate: instead he lets the clock run down for 2 mins and loses on time.

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=11879366

Does he lose less points by doing this? How sad he is.

grigtim is his name.

It's a disgrace. You get the points but this tactic by some demenas the chess.com experience. If someoe did this in a chess club the game would be abandoned sooner right??

Players should have maximum, half the available time to play a move.

does this really count for anything "roshni138 may have violated our Fair Play policy - it has been noted and they may have their account restricted."

Close this loophole.

It's not cheating, just bad sportsmanship.  You are entitled to use your time however you want.  Just block this person after the game and don't play them again.

I agree this is a good reason (and there are others) not to play games longer than 5 min or so online.

IMHO people have a right to use up their legally alloted time and complaining is poor sportsmanship. The clock is a piece in chess just as much as any other piece. Just as I sometimes make crazy moves in hopeless positions to unnerve my opponent, if I decide I can annoy my opponent by taking my time and thereby possibly cause him to make a mistake, I will do so. This is in the spirit of Emanual Lasker, knowing his opponent did not like cigars, would sometimes take out a cigar and act like he was about to light up, just to upset his opponent. And like Ruy Lopez who recommended placing the candle so that the light would shine in his opponent's eyes. 

This is true, up to a point.

There are a number of implicit agreements made at the beginning of a game, and once is indeed how the clocks will be set with no restrictions on how the players utilize the time alotted them.  Another, however, is that a game of chess will take place.

Walking away from a game and letting your clock wind down dishonours the second implcit agreement.

Making a move in the last minute in the hopes your opponent has also walked away in frustration with your lack of responsiveness is even worse.  The agreement was for a game of chess, not hot potato.

Where in the USCF or FIDE rulebook is there anything about implicit agreements? Do send me a URL. I have played chess games with people who liked to make up their own rules. You would be surprised at the silly rules people are always making up and when I cite the actual rulebook they still claim to be right. Whenever someone does that I walk away and never play him again. Are you one of those people?  Using the clock as a piece is legitimate way of playing chess. If you don't like it, use a shorter time control. By complaining about it, you show your own ignorance. 

If the laws of chess contained a section about implicit agreements, they wouldn't really be implicit, would they?

Chess is a game of rules. It its not in the rulebook it is not a rule. You can say anything is implicit. If you think someone is violating a rule on this site you can contact staff, in a tournament you can contact the TD. If someone is not doing something that you think is implcit who do you contact--the tooth fairy?

First post was five years ago and the author hasn't been on chess.com in 16 months.

So people have been arguing about this topic for at least 5 years.

Dear Tooth Fairy,

Soandso is  not doing something that is implicit. Please sprinkle him with your magic fairy powder and make him disappear. 

My how time flies.

stop the arguing