stalling

most of us have been there--playing a stronger player and you're clearly winning...  so the stalling starts...  the chat gets turned off...  with an hour or 2 left on their 3 days per move clock your opponent comes on to make the move (although they spend hours on end logged in.)  forget those who don't say GG at the end and HI to start a game, the biggest example of dick-ish-ness on chess.com is stalling.  

all that being said, i'm more embarrassed for my opponent right now than anything.  with the game clearly in hand, i can just sit back and watch him flail...  i love it.

winds me up as well Mark, especially when I quit when it's obvious I can't win and play fast, no one has to wait for points with me, it's a matter of honour

it is pretty funny on some level BUT it's more funny in an embarrassing way than a traditionally funny way.

there may not be a general answer but i wonder what is going through these people's heads.

are they thinking that they'll show me!  i can only imagine--

"i'll show this jerk for beating me!  i'll slow way down.  ha HA!"

We need to put these low lifes on a list and handle them the way sex offenders are treated. Neighbors of these people must be informed by law of the vermin they're living next to.

over the top?  maybe.  but at least we wouldn't have to play them...

plus rich, pretty obvious that bidari is being sarcastic.

I think he might have got the forums mixed up, but it is funny, lets give them the chair as well

at least the stocks...

wow, big stocks

Yeah I was just expressing a feeling in hyperbolic sarcasm. I think they should be rooted out and booted out. This is as offensive to me as cheating.

Hey thats an oldenglish punishment, I like that, then they'd have squashy veg thrown at them, seems very fair

I've got one game (5 days per move) right now that I've already finished (with conditional moves)..

I expect my opponent will play with himself another two weeks or so.  :)

Just start some new games and dont think to much about your stupid opponent, that game is won so be happy! You can't save the world on your own, and you can't make stupid people less stupid.

oh i agree, but i think it's worth calling people out for being dicks.  i'm not trying to reform the guy and i certainly have moved on, but it's still worth mentioning.

You probably feel the same as I felt in this game :

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=13383856

Actually we can make the world a better place with just a simple policy change. For example, take some of the staff here that are fervently policing the chatroom and instead put some of them on an anti-stalling task force. There's an elephant in the room and they're worried about the fly.

I was going to start a game in 2 days group, and invite my friends to join, most do play in a day, 2 days at the most. I intend never to get involved with any tournament which has move than 1 move per day. Because I play fast, my rating can vary in one week by 200 points, and it has done, I quit those I'm losing, but those I'm winning suddenly go inactive,or some moron goes on holiday- really is irritating.

some people take losing way to seriously.Its the games I lose that i get the most out of.

It's a shame it happens alright. Has happened to me. I don't like it so I message my opponent, tell them I have all the time in the world to win and all that time will be spent watching them lose very slowly.  I tell them, if that the way they want me to enjoy my win, then it's okay with me.  Because in the end I know it's my game. 

Good idea Komoliddin07

People can do whatever they want with their time. When you accept a 3 day/move game, you should keep in mind that it is within the rules for your opponent to use as much (or little) of that time as he wants.

The "Rate your Opponent" idea would get abused to the point that it wouldn't accurately reflect anything. Some people take losing hard; do I want those players to rate me if I just clobbered them in a game? No, I don't. Do I want to worry about getting a poor sportsmanship rating because I didn't say something as inconsequential "gg", or "Hello"? No! I just want to play chess!