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Have you been injured as a result of spending time on a chess site?? Call the law offices of Mark E Salamone and tell them YOU MEAN BUSINESS. They'll get you the just compensation you deserve.
mylifeisveryboring wrote:
I will never pay because moderator named eau de toilette keeps deleting my comments in the daily puzzle. I had posted this. Its not even offensive. shes trying to say lets have a beer after work
Just to clarify ... the request to not post images in the daily puzzle blog has been made clear, yes? Repeatedly? And you have refused to comply? Repeatedly?
Jan 6, 2015
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#25
Unfortunately these things happen, I find most of my opponents (95%+) resign rather than quit the game and I'm happy to take that chance. Having said that I only really ever play 5 minutes or less so I can see your point that 30 minutes is a slightly different matter but we can agree to disagree about time controls! :p
Jan 6, 2015
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#26
Some people are too busy formatting their massive blue shouts to read clear instructions. Hence their life becomes a boring treadmill of miscommunication, louder shouting, new colours to catch attention etc etc etc
Jan 6, 2015
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#27
On the subject of not resigning, it can be just as annoying in correspondence chess aswell, especially when combined with abuse. I'm playing someone at the moment who for about 15 moves when he mistakenly thought the game was a drawn position offered a draw, punctuated by him demanding a draw in the chat, then calling me an asshole amongst other insults. When it finally dawned on him that he was lost, he continued the abuse then with his lone king facing my knight and new queen typed this:
afl22: I I'll make u wait for 2 day's Lololollolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
balente wrote:
PlayChessNotWar wrote:
balente wrote:
PlayChessNotWar wrote:
I'll just end up leaving the site completely.
bye
Quoting only part of what I said. Good job. Way to be productive. I would now refer you to the asshat meme.
its not my job to be "productive" for you, retard. So... bye. Or if you prefer, fuck off.
I don't really need to come back with an insult. Your diction speaks for you.
OperationOverlord wrote:
Why do you think anyone cares if you pay for a membership or not? Get a life.
In my experience, people who take the time to tell someone else to "get a life" are likely suffering from "having no life". Way to fail. :]
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Have you been injured as a result of spending time on a chess site?? Call the law offices of Mark E Salamone and tell them YOU MEAN BUSINESS. They'll get you the just compensation you deserve.
This right here. I don't know if you were trying to insult me with this or not but it doesn't really matter. It made me smile. Thanks.
PlayChessNotWar wrote:
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Have you been injured as a result of spending time on a chess site?? Call the law offices of Mark E Salamone and tell them YOU MEAN BUSINESS. They'll get you the just compensation you deserve.
This right here. I don't know if you were trying to insult me with this or not but it doesn't really matter. It made me smile. Thanks.
That's the majic of RonnieJ: You don't know if he is making fun of you. But it doesn't matter because it's funny.
kleelof wrote:
Monthly internet - $20
Yearly membership to Chess.com - $25
Pointless unimportant forum rants - priceless
I feel like I should point out to you that using priceless to insult my "rant" is not really much of an insult and that you should have opted for the word worthless instead. But instead I am left wondering what Internet provider you are using that you only pay $20 a month.
notmtwain wrote:
chester6 wrote:
When you agree to a thirty minute game you are agreeing to give 30 mins of your time to your opponent for him to make his moves, and he is doing the same for you. You are both allowed to use your clocks how you see fit. It is spiteful to just sit there and watch the clock tick down instead of resign, and every time you play you are running the risk of someone doing that to you. It sucks, but there's just no other way to do it. If that risk is too great for you, you shouldn't agree to the game.
I'm always suprised how many people make it seem like this happens to them all the time. I've experienced it, but it is pretty rare so the risk is worth the reward for me.
Quick funny story: yesterday in a 30 min. game at move 9 my opponent stopped moving with 28 mins left on his clock. I watched some other games while the clock just ticked away, and with 2 min left on his clock he made a move, and we continued the game. Needless to say he lost on time. I think maybe he was hoping I wouldn't be there to continue. It's a real crappy thing to do, but it's so rare for me to experience that it's just a funny story.
You should report that guy. I used your history to see who that was and I notice that he has a note on his profile about doing that. Chess.com has the move time data and can verify your claim that he didn't move until there were 2 minutes left. Throw him into the pool with the other Foul Players.
The only option I can find for reporting people is for instances of harassment. If there was a way to report someone for DCing simply because they were losing then I would have never made this post. But then, I wouldn't have met all of these fine folks either.
PlayChessNotWar wrote:
I am left wondering what Internet provider you are using that you only pay $20 a month.
I live in Thailand and it is ADSL.
A year ago my internet was $5, but I had to supply my own chisel to write my messages on the stones they provided.
Priceless was the value I get from reading pointless rants on this site.
I used pointless and unimportant to indirectly refer to your OP. 
A little comment here...
Premium members can play multiple games at once (or so it says when I do something that looks like trying to play a second game). That would permit you to start another one while waiting for the other to "reconnect".
A player who disconnects in a long game has 5 minutes to reconnect. It may seem boring to you, but when it happens, you know you would have won. Just take a break, go to the restroom, have something to drink or whatever; if you're like me, you tend to have troubles leaving the screen once you've started playing. Patience is part of chess; being in control of your emotional turmoil also is. Angry players make more mistakes than cold players.
I also remember way more people disconnecting when I had a way lower rating. It's weird to say "improve and it will get better", but it's true. It won't happen in a snap of your fingers, but the lower ratings have those who are new on the site and don't know its policies yet; it also contains those who chronically disconnect.
Little mention; I had an internet problem, something throwing me to another page WHILE I was playing chess, usually right after the first move. Eventually, the site made me "lose" the games when it happens. Those who chronically disconnect DO have that consequence after a while and they learn or they don't.
kleelof wrote:
Priceless was the value I get from reading pointless rants on this site.
I used pointless and unimportant to indirectly refer to your OP.
It wasn't really that indirect. In fact, it wasn't indirect at all. And you obviously thought it was important enough to comment on. As for being pointless, that has actually been refuted. A couple of people have already made productive suggestions to help me with this problem and so in that light, it wasn't actually pointless. And I bet your forearms are really strong from all of that chiseling. Yeah, that's it. I'm sure that's why they're strong.
The bigger problem with this slow chess is that you play computers all the time. Theer are ways of avoiding it (check members ratings and don't play with people with 1100 blitz ratings and 2000 standard ratings for example) but the easy availability of chess engines has doomed slow online play in my opinion. It's really too bad as I would enjoy snuggling up with a cognac and a friendly 30 minute game but playing Fritz over the internet is just pathetic (yeah...it's better than me. So what?)
hisboyelroy wrote:
The bigger problem with this slow chess is that you play computers all the time. Theer are ways of avoiding it (check members ratings and don't play with people with 1100 blitz ratings and 2000 standard ratings for example)
YOu can cheat just as easily in blitz as you can in long time control games.
Maybe they are trying th help you change your username to myliveissoexciting