people abandoning games instead of resigning

Just as in life, you have NO idea what's going on at the other end. A phone call, a child crying, an angry parent or spouse. So relax, play a puzzle in another window (if you're on a computer), or read a news feed if you're on you're phone. There are a lot of worse things that could happen to you, than have to wait a couple of minutes.

It's the timing of an opponent who is playing lightening fast and then suddenly stops and abandons the moment they blunder a piece. It doesn't happen often but when it does it's clear they have abandoned because they're in a losing position. Similar behaviour to how opponents abort a game when they start as black because they only like playing as white.

I don't have other windows open when I'm playing a live game in-case it appears suspicious to fair play detection or the site thinks I've abandoned.

You do not really understand the game of chess do you?
This is not boxing, or ice hockey or football, chess is much more serious, and if you think children (WTF???), angry parents or spouses (again WTF?????????) are any possible excuse for this atrocious and cowardly imbecilic behaviour of losers then, frankly, pal, you do not get chess. if you are losing you must resign - if anything else (like kids choking) you must resign.

Yep, you can, you can report for stalling or leaving etc.

chill.

I understand this point, but it's not what the thread is about...

People not resigning when they are loosing a game should have a special waiting room in hell...

I agree this might and does probably happens sometimes... But I'm pretty sure it's only a very small part of people not resigning.

Personally, if I mess up with time, I try to catch up with my opponent and apologise...

I will k*ll anybody who abandons games!

Why would you collude to lose more points lol

yeah, if something happens, I resign and take the points loss vs abandoning. When you take a piece and the guy resigns, it's not because their baby started crying. Give me a break.

reporting is pointless. they do nothing obviously.

Nice

my win means i won. end of story.

Someone creates a new account just so they can abandon games against a friend to give them double points. It's not a difficult scenario to understand.

I just block and report for abandonment and move on.

I just slip into my favourite silk babydoll and move on.

Oh so I can't say anything because I'm low-rated? What does rating have to do with rematching? Plus you can repeat your win by not only rematching the same person, but rematching with other opponents. Youbhave zerp sympathy for me? "Oh no, I'm so scared that you have zero sympathy for me" I also have zero sympathy for you with your pathetic argument. I also don't have tactics and gimmicks, I just play and eventually get a winning or losing position.

You can hang out with Stern, since he's just a chesstopcrown alt, ajd he's the one who said that people who don't rematch are scared.

One last thing, I ain't gonna win against you, even once, since I'm not good in blitz

Rematches have nothing to do with the issue of players deliberately abandoning instead of playing on or resigning. I rarely rematch and most of the time when I do the opponent has already started a new game with someone else so when I'm playing a session of rapid or blitz it's easier just to hit the 'new game' button. Your profile suggests you're obsessed with rematches but that has nothing to do with this discussion unless you think an opponent can see in to the future and abandons a game because their crystal ball tells them the opponent will decline a rematch.

Really don't understand abandoning a game if you are low ELO (as I am) because chances are your opponent still has time to blunder and you have a chance to get back into the game, but there is no shame in resigning if the game is genuinely hopeless. People are weird sometimes.

Why do you, a person who is far below average rating, who only plays a few times a month, think you have enough data for your opinion to matter?