Can we STOP people from STALLING?

This is why I never play >15:00 time controls. There is no need for more than 15-20 minutes anyway. If you're taking that long, you're either lagging or in a really horrible position and too stubborn to resign. Exceptions are not common enough to justify it.

It's easy, if your opponent stalls just resign and you'll get a new game without having to deal with stalling!

it will charge points

"It's easy, if your opponent stalls just resign and you'll get a new game without having to deal with stalling!"

which is exactly what they want, and it will encourage them to do it more often

It's easy if y'all just play bullet

Of course they can be stopped from stalling, but our useless chess.com team refuses to care and add the simplest solution, i.e. time limit per move (e.g. 90 secs or 2 mins). I honestly was quite shocked this wasn't there the first time I played the game.

Many users including myself continue to suffer from this prominent problem, and chess.com, quite honestly at this point, deliberately doesn't do anything about it. It has now become a punishment when you're winning to sit and wait like a clown waiting for the opponent's clock to run out. This is a strategy used by several trolls to annoy you and persuade you to resign.

I've complained to support about this possibly over 5 times now with multiple instances of proofs, and they refused to add a time limit saying that people sometimes need more time to make a move, and they have seen the same from matches of top chess players in world tournaments. To this day the irony of that statement is funny. They clearly don't see the difference between a world tournament and a casual mobile game, where playerbase is completely different. Also, in my entire chess.com matches history I have never seen a player take more than 2 mins for a move, unless they are stalling the whole game out. Even if players did take more than 2 mins for a move, they naturally won't have much time for the rest of the moves which in turn can lead to timeout for them, which is why it makes even more sense to add a limit to remind people and have a balanced time game for them.

I know some people suggest playing 3 or 5 min, but that's a completely different kind of game where you have to use speed and luck rather than the real essence of strategy. It makes no sense to change your game mode just because people are trolling in other modes. Fix the trolls rather than running away from the problem. P.S., even in 5 mins I've seen people stall where they lose a piece early, and waste a whole 4 mins to troll you.

Sadly, they know really well about all the problems and all the possible solutions but don't fix it on purpose. This non-support is a strategy used by several apps to have a large user base, i.e. to allow people to troll. If they stop people from trolling, they will lose out on a large number of trolls and basically a large number of players. They don't care about good or bad, only numbers matter, which results in more users and in turn more revenue. Pathetic

I always play 10/10 tournament,but this stalling is so annoying..think about that u only have i step to do checkmate on opponent but the opponent is clever because tournament time almost finish but the opponent have 4 to 5min time and they wait until tournament time finish..so annoying..

That’s a quirk of how chessdotcom handles the end of Arena. On Lichess, the games finish, but no longer count towards the Arena score. There are merits to both systems.

I'm having this issue with someone in a daily game. They are clearly in a losing position. They'll make one move, and then turn on vacation pause. That causes all of their games to pause. But later, the same day, they might make a move, and then after my move they may wait a day, and then again go on vacation pause. I think there should be a restriction that after coming back from vacation pause, the pause cannot be used again for a number of days.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8562517-how-do-i-report-someone

Beat to report if people are abusing this function

I never understood why this is against the rules. Yes it is annoying, but if you play an X min game, then it means you agree that you will spend your next 2X minutes on that game

+1

Stalling is pretty annoying, but if they are stalling I am winning so I don't care.