All I know is I'm a queen and a half up in a game I'm playing, and my opponent has three pawns to his name and no stalemate tries, and he says he "doesn't like to resign" and announces he's gone on vacation but he's still online - and this was my [i]greeter[/i] for fork's sake! Hoping I'll step in front of a bus or something, I guess. Welcome to chess.com, huh?
This is from a Chess.com greeter!?
People are being funny today! Or am I just a little tipsy....
You are not alone, many are currently complaining about this unsportsmanlike practice.
I think a good solution to this would be for chess.com to add an "unfinished game" rating. This practice is done similarly on the Internet Scrabble Club website and it's helpful to know whether your opponent is committed to finishing games whether they win or loose. It's a really important concern to address because in order to truly improve your game, you need to take the game all the way.
All I know is I'm a queen and a half up in a game I'm playing, and my opponent has three pawns to his name and no stalemate tries, and he says he "doesn't like to resign" and announces he's gone on vacation but he's still online - and this was my [i]greeter[/i] for fork's sake! Hoping I'll step in front of a bus or something, I guess. Welcome to chess.com, huh?
This is from a Chess.com greeter!?
People are being funny today! Or am I just a little tipsy....
And it's an unrated game, so it's not like I'm costing him any rating points.
By "finishing" and "take it all the way" do you mean sludging on until checkmated? Are you looking for a percentage of games they resigned rather than playing until checkmated? We've already got people at odds over that issue.
If by finishing you mean not timing out, we've already got a measure of that. Everyone's percentage of games that they timed out is known.
All I know is I'm a queen and a half up in a game I'm playing, and my opponent has three pawns to his name and no stalemate tries, and he says he "doesn't like to resign" and announces he's gone on vacation but he's still online - and this was my [i]greeter[/i] for fork's sake! Hoping I'll step in front of a bus or something, I guess. Welcome to chess.com, huh?