VACATION CHEATING

Man, reading this tread, I is wishing I was still in ze slammer, yo!

If you want it that badly, gab, go slap a cop.

It would be preferable to reading this gibberish...

I nearly did last knight, when a pig threw an unopen beer, stashed in me bag, into da bin, cheeky mothar & then he's got ze cheek to tell me to respect ze law? young ones these a days, yo!

Thought our current tourney was suppose to be a quick knock out-seems like you've been following the same motto you're complaining about :p 67jedichessmaster wrote: Vacation(Want timeout protection that puts you on vacation automatically when low on time? Click here!) WHAT IS  THIS  ABOUT????  TEACHING  HOW TO CHEAT FROM CHESS.COM??? SO ARE YOU OKING TO CHEAT ON HERE ???????  I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE FOR REAL LIFE ISSUES, WIFE  HAVING BABY, DEATH  IN  FAMILY, SWINE FLU!!!!  NO WONDER SO MANY  OF THESE  TOURNAMENTS ARE SO LONG, JUST BECAUSE YOUR TIME IS SHORT !!!!! I AM GETTING MORE AND MORE AMAZED WITH THIS SITE AND THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS IS RIGHT OR OK AND AUTO VACATION TO PAYING MEMBERS ???? WOW ! THIS SITE HAS SO MUCH GOING FOR IT, THE TIME CLOCKS AND FAKE VACATONS ARE HORRIBLE ISSUES HERE, TOO MUCH  CHEATING I WANT TO WIN BUT I WANT  TO WIN BECAUSE I WHIPPED YOU NOT BECAUSE I FOUND A LOOP HOLE OR A GLICH !! SO SAD :  (  FIX THIS !!! PLZ I WILL BE THE FIRST TO SIGN UP!!! IT CAN'T BE TO HARD!! HONORBLE PEOPLE PLEASE LET THEM KNOW HOW "WE" FEEL

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BorgQueen wrote: I dunno about others, but I would consider it a total waste of vacation time to bother going on vacation just to delay a loss for a month or whatever.  It's still a loss whether I resign now or go on vacation for a month and then return. But I love auto-vacation time and I would fight to keep it as a privilege of paying members.  Why?  Sometimes stuff happens in life and you are unable to return to your computer / get online ... like a sudden bout in hospital... or maybe you all of a sudden just couldn't be bothered logging in because of a death of a friend / family member.  It is nice to know that if something like that happens, my games will be paused.  I see nothing wrong with that. If someone else I was playing decided to go on vacation because the end is near then you know what I would do?  Nothing.  Let them waste/use their vacation time as they see fit.  What difference does it really make? +1

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I feel this way and I am a premium member.  I have people do this to me and it's madening.  I have a game going with someone that goes into vacation mode every 3 days and then stays in vacation mode for 3 or 4 days.  I know you get a lot of vacation time with premium membership.  This could go on for a long time and it's rude.  Play or quit.

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The claim of having to "babysit" the game is nonsense.  Chess.com lets you know when it's your move again whether it's been an hour or a couple months since you submitted your previous move.

How does chess.com let you know when it's your turn?  The only way I know that is by going to the site.  Am I missing something?  I'm serious.  

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Uh, that's what I meant.  They're not going to telephone you.  But no one needs to keep going to and watching one specific game to see when a move has been made as long as they are doing anything else at all on chess.com.

If you guys don't like vacation, then you should play in non-vacation tournaments. Personally, auto vacation is great as a premium member, although I've only used one day of vacation in my entire time playing. I was at a three day OTB tournament (state high school) and it saved me about 50 games of time outs.

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 If this bothers you, then id suggest entering No Vacation Tournaments. 

I get an e-mail when it's my move in a game. They don't send one for every game, as there is a timeout mechanism in place to prevent game notification spams. I also don't think they send one if you are on the site at the time but you do get the Alert box with the notification.

As long as you haven't changed your alert setttings you should be getting those anyway.

When I first joined I had those email alerts set, and I was particularly interested in the ones that would warn me when I was running out of time (I had an unpaid account for a few months, and thus no auto-vacation).  I found the alerts could be sent late enough so as to be of no use.  Chess.com isn't very good at keeping track of time on CC games (auto-vacation mode will kick in long before a game is ready to timeout, for instance).  That's just part of the nature of the beast.

I am in a tournament where one member has taken a vacation. When this vacation is over, the player as about 20 games to play. Over 100 participants are waiting for this one player.

Its extremely inconsiderate, but I think its just something we have to tolerate when playing online chess.

This is interesting. Aggravated because others aren't monitoring their games and the site night and day, but not monitoring their games and the site night and day.