people do not show up

I think playing on the board tournament a big problem is when people do not show up and do not tell it.

you have to stare at the board for one hour before the win can be declared.

I think this is a bigger problem than the "why don't they resign"

even though you win you feel like you waste your time staring at the board.

in some tournament they do not use the 1 hour rule so you have to watch your opponent clock fall.

I think it should be 10 minutes at the most people can be late.

i thought fide was half an hour?

I agree, but one reason you don't see this brought up is the majority of people on here haven't been to an OTB tournament.  In a  why(not) resigning thread you get comments like "I have __# of games going anyway"

Don't think that winning is wasting time. Focus on the next game.

10 minutes  Ridiculous..... try 1 second to late....::

found the following on a website:

 Susan Polgar recently reported on a new FIDE rule. Check it out:

FIDE has implemented the new rule about players arriving to tournament late.

It used to be that players are forfeited after being late for one hour. Now, players are forfeited immediately, even if they are late for only seconds. GM Hou Yifan arrived 5 seconds late to her board during one of the rounds at the 2009 Chinese Championship and she was forfeited.

Similar situations happened at the 2008 Dresden Olympiad when this was implemented.

I should add that I was in a FIDE rated town tournament and they wrote in the tournament leaflet we exclude the rule about being late..so your clock will run.

Some tournaments here in SA, just being present is not even good enough, you have to be seated. Stand behind your chair at the start time and you're out...

I can see holding professionals in elite events to a much higher standard than others. However, to hold amateurs , in Open events, to such standards is completely ridiculous. Imagine, you are paying several hundred dollars to play in an event and arrive for round 1 20 minutes late and have been forfeited !!?  When this starts happening you will see the numbers of amateur chess players decimated and I will be one of the ones who will quit.

I have had opponents that didnt show up and forfeited their game with me and I have had a few games in which I didnt show up and was forfeited. Its hard for me to imagine an otb player who hasnt been on both sides of this..... maybe one with not many tournies under their belt.....??

The current FIDE waiting time is 0 minutes-if you're late, you forfeit. But most tournaments I've been to increase the waiting time to 30-60 minutes, which I believe to be reasonable.

The 0 waiting time increases forfeits, and it sucks to have the first place determined by the fact your opponent missed a bus. FIDE should try to cut down on forfeits, because they're not sportsmanlike results-not increase the number. I know many TDs have their own way of dealing with no shows, such as that the "no show" player may not play the tournament next year unless he pays a deposit. Such measures are far more effective than FIDE's "zero tolerance".

I'm playing a week long tournament, the waiting time is 30 minutes. I've never been late yet, but the thirty minutes is optimal-it means that if I miss my train, I'll still make it (barely)-but it also means I won't have to wait an hour and a half if my opponent won't show up.

Thankfully, TDs can make exceptions to this silly FIDE rule.

 Not trying to ruffle anyones feathers here, i have read several of your replies Reb and you seem like a pretty sensible guy just wanted to say that i have played OTB tourn. for over 30 years now and have not forfeited one yet. I do agree that to forfeit someone for being only seconds late is really rediculous. Give them an hour after that it is a loss.

LOL once i had a no show but i forgot to press my clock so i lost

15 min is the default walk over timel in FIDE tournaments.