I have an opponent who doesn't want to move or resign :(

Let this be the last time it bothers you! It happened to me too. I had to go away. The checkmate was inevetable. It WAS checkmate. It could only be delayed by putting a piece to block it, it would get eaten, and mate. There were 7 minutes left on the clock. I resigned!

I lost points but who cares? I hope to not see topics like this anymore.

Since joining chess.com and reading these topics I have been surprised at how many people belittle others because they do not agree with them. The topic brought up about fast or slow chess is amusing to me.  Jollymann said it well when he said: " I think it's rather lame to consider that anyone who takes his deliberate time thinking about his moves is weak or slow thinking.  Maybe he's strong and normal thinking.  Maybe he doesn't like making half-witted moves where blunders are bound to happen.  I'm sure that lots of others who are greats in the game, masters and such, loath bullet style or speed chess conditions."

I enjoy chess anyway my opponent may wants to play.  One of my friends and I play OTB chess without any time limit, and our games average around 2 and half hours.  It doesn't seem that long. However, a good blitz game is fun, too.  I don't loath any form of chess.  

Thanks Crosspinner.  Actually I dig those kinds of games.  Get out, set up the board, play some chess over coffee or beers.  In a sense, all of this to me is practice for that.  In a way, all of this is a computerized subsitute for that.  I was playing chess long before I had ever heard of PCs.  They could all blow up tomorrow and I'd still play it the normal way.  The games I get in with guys over-the-board go anywhere from 30 min to 2 and a half hours.  It takes what it takes, and that's fine.

Derek J.

this only encourages the bastards to do it again.

If they all blow up tomorrow you will spend your time fending for your life and the life of your loved ones against desperates while civilisation crashes to its knees not playing chess

You could show him and resign first.

Or just start another game and look in on the duffer every few days.

I just don't get the problem.

 Could somebody please change the babies diaper!!

When it becomes clear someone is not going to move, I go read an article somewhere to pass the time.  I will not give up a victory to a sleezy tactic.  I do periodically check back to make sure they have not moved.

Sounds like you are oppossed to thinking.

You're right about fending for our lives if things blew up tomorrow.  It is difficult to realize how much we depend on computers alone, let alone the technology we take for granted.  However, if I have a chessboard, even if I have to draw it on the ground and use stones for chessmen as in the photo in The Chess Art Thread :    post #381  I think it would help me fend off a lot of stress going on around me.  

I remember seeing a chess set made from wood by American prisoners of war in the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.  Where there’s will there’s a way. Come what may, I’m gonna do my best to find some way to play chess.  Right, Jollymann?

I wasn't making a reference to some sort of a post-atomic world with Mad Max's characters running about with bad haircuts and caramelized fingernails. I meant if the personal computers we use as entertainment, toys, and typewriters, crapped out or stopped working for whatever reason.  In that case I'd still play chess since I did when we had a civilized world without PCs, and since I have a set.  I only meant that chess isn't contingent on computers.  Neither is life.--D.J.

I like to promote to rook if I can get my rook pair back by doing it 

Whatever.  The importance of computers to society is way overblown.  I've never been fed nor sheltered by a computer. 

instead of getting upset about it, realise u have defeated them and move on. i have had same thing done to me and i txt them a note and carry on.

lol...chances are pretty good the guy has moved on by now.

Must be Louis Paulsen.

Historically time clocks were first used because tournament organizers wanted to charge admission and nobody would pay to see two chess players sitting without moving.

Then they added clocks, and boy, did the spectators flock!

I'm just glad Eo___________________ is gone!

Yeah, he got to be a bit burdensome.