Clock-suckers!!

I play alot of Live 5 minute Blitz games. Recently have noticed there are too many clock-sucking losers here. You know the ones, as soon as they start to lose they don't resign, they don't make a move, they just let the clock run down and waste my freakin time!! I call these players clock-suckers. I think this is a very fitting term and am officially laying claim to coining this Chess phrase. Please feel free to use it when you encounter a classic Clock-sucking low life. I don't have time, and I'm sure none of you do either, to sit there and watch someone suck your clock while playing chess!! Has anyone else had this happen to them?

I'm starting to feel like we need an "I'm angry" subforum.

This is serious...just had 2 in a row suck my clock!!

That's perhaps as much as ten minutes of your life you are never gonna get back, John.  But look at it this way...it is the ultimate compliment....they bowed down to you, their vanquisher, by giving you the gift of time to contemplate your complete superiority.  Feels good, doesn't it, when you think about it that way!

The title is pretty clever, I'll give you that.

AS a newbie, when I recently started ,ithought it was 5 minutes between moves!

didn't take long to understand that wasn't for me

No it doesn't ! it's like being held hostage by some unknown person halfway around the world. I sit there like an idiot for the last 3 minutes of the game whilst they go off and happily suck the clock of another unsuspecting victim : (

I love it when my Opponents run away and allow me the chance to bask in my superior position.

It is almost like getting a huge stack of cash throwing it in the air and rolling around in it.

As long as they don't bite they can suck my clock all day. It can't always be wam bam thank you mam and done. Sometimes you got to cuddle and have a cigarette and reflect. Slow your roll, practice tantric yoga chess. 

Heh. Dunno why you'd want to complain about it.

5 minutes? Try online (3 day chess) where it lasts for days dude. Where a draw is expected or a win and they let the time run down to the bitter end.

Puleez. At least you get the win instead of losing because of disconnection on your opponents end.

Wow. I thought you were going to complain about something legitimate instead of people abandoning their games. Geez. Get over yourself bro.

hey Kay - no therapy needed here, and just for the record abandoning a Blitz game is not according to the rules, in fact it violates Chess.com's fair play policy and is basically a waste of everyones time. 

I get your not too familiar with Chess or this site. I play alot of online Chess with 3 days to make a move. Some of my games have lasted over a year. The difference is that if your opponent does not move you don't sit there for three days staring at the screen. You make your move then go on with your life, eventually you get a notice saying your opponent has timed out and you win. What a stupid comment, maybe next time try putting at least a bit of thought into it...Geez...bro :/

If you agreed to play 5 min blitz, you each get 5 minutes which equals 10 min.  If your opponent doesnt move, you now only have to wait 5 min or less, so you actually saved time.  

Yeah, so?  Who the flip cares?  I don't do it, but it's blitz.  It's not like some of the cr@p I've dealt with in the past.

Try playing an over the board game against Marvin Barker in West Virginia.  He goes around studying other player's openings and patterns, thinking he can prep for any opponent.  Did it to me in Round 5 of the West Virginia State Championship in 2006.  He saw I played Bird's Opening round 2 (had Black the other 3 rounds at that point, got White both rounds the final day), and tried to prep for me the night before.

When he realized he was dead after 22 or 23 moves, about to drop a whole piece, he just sat there for 36 of the 37 minutes he had left and did nothing, and was a complete a** about it when he did lose.  He even got into it with the director.

So you want empathy for having to wait a whopping 2 minutes?  Not gettin' it!  Cry me a river!  I myself don't resign in Blitz, but I don't stall either unless I'm legitimately thinking, which I do - I actually have 5 minutes ya know!

Get a life and find something more useful to post about!

Want some cheese with that whine?  And things could be worse!  What if they did something that entailed you removing an L from the last word used in describing what they did?

At a tournament in Auburn, Ca. a few years ago, I offered a guy a draw.  He sat there for 30+ minutes, and when his clock ran down to 1 minute he accepts.  So yea...I dont get to worked up when someone sits there for a few minutes online.

Hey I'm super impressed you can add 5 + 5! wow good job! Too bad the rest of your post makes no sense. How is staring at a board for 5 minutes after your opponent has left saving time? If you can make that somehow make any sense at all I will be floored...

the difference here is he was sitting there actually thinking about his move, when he realized he could not make a good move he resigned. What a ding-bat you are!! Can you not grasp this?