Stalling is when someone is losing a position and simply abandons the game, but doesn't close the app and so you have to wait for their time to tick over. The person hopes you will get bored and resign. They won't move, but will simply wait for the clock to tick to 0.
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That's not stalling. That's tactics!
Stalling is when someone is losing a position and simply abandons the game, but doesn't close the app and so you have to wait for their time to tick over. The person hopes you will get bored and resign. They won't move, but will simply wait for the clock to tick to 0.
Stalling is when someone is losing a position and simply abandons the game, but doesn't close the app and so you have to wait for their time to tick over. The person hopes you will get bored and resign. They won't move, but will simply wait for the clock to tick to 0.
Wasting both your time and their time- and they still lose in the end!
Oh that makes sense actually, thanks! puts me a little bit more at ease not having to worry about being banned haha
One time I was playing a game where I was losing but my opponent had something like 0.5 seconds left. (I had a minute). I was early to chess.com, and so didn't know about "insufficient material" and so sacrificed all my pieces in an attempt to make moves that my opponent would have to spend time thinking about and that he wouldn't expect.
Of course, this meant that I had no pieces left but my king when my opponents clock ran out, and so it was draw by insufficient material- that was over a year ago and I still remember being shocked and annoyed with myself for not learning the rules!
Of course, this meant that I had no pieces left but my king when my opponents clock ran out, and so it was draw by insufficient material- that was over a year ago and I still remember being shocked and annoyed with myself for not learning the rules!
i reported someone for the first time today, whom i was 99% sure was cheating. No biggie, ive been compensated before for someone who was apparently cheating who i didn't even report. Im still very new to chess so wasnt really important anyway.
my question is though, when i was reporting i saw an option for ''stalling the game''. But from what i've read on the chess subreddit was that in gamemodes like blitz (i play 5 minute blitz almost exclusively atm) is that time is a resource, and if you are behind in points but ahead in time you can still win on time?
so would it be against the rules for me to run around with my king or purposely make reckless/suicidal moves just because i know my opponent is low on time?