It has been a week already. I want to quit this crappy site, but not to give him the pleasure of winning on a technicality. From what I can see, he is losing on most of his games. He takes at least a day per move, and once a week he takes a few days vacation. Why start so many games if you play so slow? Why start so many games if you are going to take vacation so often?

I wouldn't have accepted him as an opponent if I could. This stupid site gives a challenge acceptor all the data about the seeker, but not the other way around.

Shame.

There's a limit to how many vacation days you get. You'll eventually get the satisfaction of winning against him, just be patient. The feature is useful if people use it the proper way, and should not be taken away. If you were to find yourself travelling, you'd be glad it's there.

I am not saying take it away completely. I am saying, don't allow people to play real time games when on vacation.

I didn't realize it could be used in live games. I thought it was only for daily games. You make a good point.

No. It can't be used for live games. What I am saying is. A person can say they are on vacation, their correspondence games are paused, meanwhile they still play real time games. That's a problem.

Yeah, it should deactivate if they play any games, I guess.

One of my opponents is already on vacations since multiple weeks. He's a payment-member; thus I'm tending to believe that payment-members can buy themselves as much vacation time as they want?

You can report them for taking multiple vacations when they are obviously doing it to avoid moving. I once had to report someone for doing in it in an even position when we had agreed previously that we would not abuse vacation and that we would move normally, at least every three days.

After a wait of two weeks, he resigned and blocked me. He started a thread about how he always wins in that particular opening ... white in the 2. c3 Sicilian. I think staff had had a word with him.

Every member gets vacation. Premium members get more. They can only get the amount that comes with their membership and they can't build up more than 3 months in total.

Every member adds more vacation days every month.

They can't buy more.

You should read the Help topic to understand all the details of vacation.

/ If you look at the info tab it says that your oppponent only has 2 weeks left. Your 14-day time control game will soon be back on track to finish some time in 2026.

How does vacation work? How much time do I get?

Sometimes, life demands that you put your favorite things on hold for a while. Chess.com understands this, and gives all members the ability to pause their Online Chess games using an allotment of Vacation time.

To go on vacation, go to your Daily chess settings. Or click here: https://www.chess.com/settings/daily

For Android, tap 'more' then choose 'settings' and 'daily chess' 

You'll see an option to pause your games for vacation.

To put yourself ON vacation, click on the switch next to "PAUSE MY GAMES! I need to go on vacation". To end your vacation, simply make a move. 

Making a move in any of your Daily games will end your vacation for all of them. All games are paused, or no games are paused. You can not go on vacation in individual games. 

Accepting a Daily game challenge will also end your vacation. If you start a new game, your vacation will be turned off. Declining a challenge does NOT affect your vacation. 

When you go on vacation, you may wish to let your opponents know using the in game chat feature.

The text in red shows how much vacation time you have remaining. Please note that each time you go on vacation a minimum of 24 hours of your remaining vacation budget is consumed.
It is very important you remember to click the "Save" button at the bottom of that page before closing or leaving this page!

How much time do you get?
 

All new Chess.com accounts start out with 7 days of vacation time.

All members accrue additional vacation days every month on the 1st, & on the 15th.Basic members earn a total of 2 days per month, Gold members earn 3 days, Diamond & Platinum members earn 5 days per month. 

This means that Basic Members get 1 day on the 1st of the month and 1 day on the 15th, Gold Members get 1.5 days on 1st and 1.5 days again on the 15th, and Platinum and Diamond Members get 2.5 days on the 1st and 2.5 again on the 15th

Vacation time is capped at a certain maximum so that you can't keep accumulating vacation time forever. Your maximum allowable vacation time depends on your membership level:

• Basic Members: can hold a maximum of 30 vacation days
• Gold: can hold a maximum of 60 vacation days
• Platinum/Diamond: can hold a maximum of 90 vacation days

Once the above maximum levels are reached, you won't gain anymore vacation time until you use some of it! 

Automatic Timeout Protection

All premium members enjoy auto-timeout protection, meaning that their vacation will be automatically enabled if they are at risk of losing any of their games on time.

If a premium member has less than 90 minutes left in one of their daily games, their vacation will automatically turned on and their games paused. 

The system checks once per hour to see whether games need to be paused for auto-timeout protection, so games will not always be paused at the same time. For example, if the system checks and sees that there are 90 minutes left, the game will be paused. But if there are 91 minutes left when the system checks, it will not pause until it checks again 1 hour later. Then, the game would be paused at 31 minutes. 

The One-Day Minimum

It's important not to expend vacation time frivolously or abusively (vacation abuse). To discourage these behaviors, we have implemented a one-day minimum on vacation length:
 

• All vacation times will consume a minimum of 24 hours. 
• Example 1: If you are only on vacation for 5 minutes, 24 hours will be deducted from your remaining vacation time.
• Example 2: If you are on vacation for 23 hours, 24 hours will be deducted.
• Example 3: If you are on vacation for 25 hours, then it is 25 hours (not 48) that will be consumed.

If the information in this article is out of date or incorrect, or if you have questions about it, please let us know! 

You can start other games to keep busy while current opponent are on Vacation.

It's excessive, to be sure. But, chess.com isn't going to remove features for premium members; their cash flow depends on them.

I have to add that in my recent experience with the same player, he goes on vacation after making a move that backfired. This has happened more than once. But as mentioned I go on to other games while he consults his computer,lol.