Survey: Auto-Win on Time

JBAlman, one of the most reliable members, is currently on a 54 game losing streak due to timeouts. Apparently few members turn off the the Auto-Win on Time setting.

Turning off the Auto-Win on Time setting allows your opponents up to two months to make a move. This is especially useful for basic members without auto-timeout protection. This would allow more games to go to a non-timeout conclusion. For some this is more satisfying than a timeout win. (Note: Not applicable to tournament games and team matches.)

With the setting off a player can decide to resign if the rating increase is unwarranted. On the other hand a player may want as many wins and rating points as possible.

Is your setting on or off?

Responses, if any, will be updated in this first post: Updated to post 17

On - 9 (I cannot wait to win or other reason)

Off - 2 (I want to play or other reason)

Depends - 1

Well, mine is on- but that doesn't mean 'I cannot wait to win'. Rather, if my opponent doesn't play within his agreed time-slot, he loses. Same as with OTB chess.

Hehe i´m in between

If a player is a friend of mine, i´ll turn it off especially for him/her, but if it is a team match, or a tournament game, or something importants, i normally have the setting Auto-Claim win on Time orso...

on

On.

it's on.....if you can't win within your given time limit, you don't deserve to win.

As I have requested in Wish list, I suggest that any opponent winning on time should have to claim the win rather than automatically be given the win. This I think is better than turning off a setting to win on time.

So if you are say just 5 minutes over and your opponent wants to claim a win they can, but they don't get the win on time automatically.

My setting is on as people don't have to claim a win on time, and I think most have their setting to automatically win on time.

Mine is on, mostly because I lost on time once, and it was completely my fault. I don't see any reason to turn it off just because the opponent cannot responsibly monitor their games. If you're worried about time, create 14 day seeks.

Mine is on.  I never bothered to change it from the default, and my rating would be a solid 400 points lower than it is now if not for opponent time-outs.  I can't even beat a 1200, but luckily, most of my opponents time out to give me a rating of 1300+.

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What's good about that? Your rating is a refelction of your skill, and has no value beyond that. Being happy about your rating rising only makes sense if you're happy because you're becoming a better player. However, if your rating is only rising because of time-outs, it's just a meaningless number.

 That's right.  It is just a meaningless number, since the majority of my wins have come from opponent time-outs.  (in live chess, it's the same thing, but with opponent disconnects) 

I would like to improve it by improving my skill, but I can't do that, as evidenced by my 5 hours of chess every day since February and little to no improvement...

 Well, actually your rating is a reflection of how likely you are to win against others in the same rating pool. Therefore factoring in wins on time is perfectly reasonable because you are more likely to defeat a player of higher rating if they time out often and you don't.

I don't mean that the rating shouldn't factor it in, I just don't see a rating raise reason for celebration if it isn't accompanied by a skill raise.

On.  I was a member before 'off' was even an option, and I found that a refreshing change from the site I used to play at.  There, you had to explicitly click a "Take the win" control to end the game in your favour once your opponent timed out.  It brought out a lot of venom in the forums there.  Ergo, I liked the impersonal "time and tide waits for no man" approach here at chess.com.

Cheers

mine is off, i'd rather finish the game

On! I hate it when the game drags on for months and people who time out also take a long time to move.

Obviously, people have the right to use as much of their time as they like, but when you make your move with only an hour left of a three day time control for every move of the game it takes a very long time.

So instead of complaining about vacation abuse or slow players, my answer is leaving time control auto-win on. You flirt with the end of the time-control at your own peril.

I've set mine not to take the automatic win on time.  I could claim a game from a Greek guy right now, for example, but I've written back and forth with him and he seems cool.  Maybe he got accidentally thrown overboard from a ferry to Crete and is barely surviving on a raft in the Mediterranean?  I mean, how lame of me would it be to claim a game on time in those circumstances?  What kind of a monster am I?

But then again, maybe he has moved in with some Greek goddess on a coast somewhere and they're just eating olives and goat cheese all day long and enjoying the silk sheets?  In that case, to Hades with the guy (or whatever the Greek equivalent of Hades is/was) -- the least he could do is check his blasted computer before jumping back into bed.

The really scary thing is: Greek guy is clearly much better than his ranking, and he could beat me if he logged back in.  But now because of his raft situation, or his love-shack situation, his rating has sunk like a stone, so if he does log back in eventually and win, my rating will likewise sink. 

Ah well, ratings aren't everything.  Pass the uzo.

on...  there's a pretty easy solution for not losing on time.

i'm pretty sure there isn't but does chess.com have a "no time limit per move" setting?  if not, should there be one for the people who genuinely do not care how long a game takes?

Players abandon the site. There would eventually be millions of games on the current games list until the end of the internet. That's why the win is awarded after 2 months.