People Who Prolong The Game With Inactivity Until Timeout

Have you ever played a timed game where the other person knows they're gonna lose, but instead of resigning, they become completely inactive until they timeout, forcing you to wait multiple minutes?

Yet their inactivity doesn't result in the Auto-Abort pop-up showing up, which usually happens when they've closed their phone or exited out of the app. So if they're inactive for minutes upon minutes, yet the auto-abort timer doesn't appear, does that mean that they're deliberately staying on the game, touching their screens so their phones don't sleep [aka resulting auto-abort mode], just so they can force their opponent to sit there and wait? Why do they do this? To annoy the opponent? To hope their opponent becomes impatient and exits out of the game before they do, thus resulting in a win? Sometimes I feel like it happens so much, and I think it's just normal courtesy to not have to make your opponent sit there, inactive, for a long period of time when you already have the intention to give up anyway. Has anyone else ever been through this?

Not everyone plays on their phone -- that fact right there opens up even more possibilities as to why your opponent might not be moving.  

Maybe their doorbell rang and they had to deal with whoever it was for a few minutes..  

Maybe their boss came into their office and they had to quickly jump to another window.

Maybe the undercooked tacos they ate a few hours earlier suddenly caused them to have to literally run to the toilet in order to save their underwear and pants from being destroyed.

Or maybe it was one of the reasons you mentioned -- i'm sure plenty of people let the clock run out of spite, or in hopes of you being too impatient to wait it out, etc.

Who knows?  Who cares?  No biggie.

 

And for what it's worth, apparently Chess.com does keep track of this sort of thing, and will take action if a player seems to time-out over long stretches too often.  

 

There are far better things to do with life than to stand in front of the microwave oven screaming, "COME ON COME ON I AIN'T GOT ALL MINUTE!"

f you think about it.

a computer clock runs at 9-10gigahertz (9-10billion / second)

 

that means it is literally sitting there counting, many millions upon millions of numbers just waiting in 'idle' mode for your fingers to hit the key- even when you are furiously typing as fast as you can.

 

sometimes I've amazed on how patient a computer is.  It waits millions to billions of counts for its human to act-

and yet you stare at a clock showing 600 seconds- and if you have to wait half of those seconds (MAX) for your opponent you are upset.

 

think about it.

and ofc the next time they make you wait, open up another tab and find some good music on you tube to help the time pass...