If one player resigns within the first 4 moves, I'm pretty sure there is no rating change, so you could just resign.
Stalling a Game
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i was on a 14 day time control tourn. that started july 2008 and going on ... 2014
why in the world would you pick 14 days
Mar 30, 2014
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Don't pick 14 day time if you aren't willing to wait 14 days. If you are a diamond member you have the option of picking players who have a faster average move speed (<12 hrs, <6hrs, <3hrs) when you make a random game challenge (may also be available to less than diamond membership, but I only noticed it when I upgraded).
Normally the actual time to make a move is much less than the max, especially for a standard opening. This player made the first and only move as white ten days ago. Absurd to wait fourteen days to make a move in a standard opening.
I just resigned and took a hit on my rating. Let's see if it sticks.
I received this response from support:
Shaun replied:
Hi cdowis75,
First, I apologize for the misinformation you were given in the forum. Aborting a game does not cost you rating points, however, resigning one does. I know this information comes to you a little bit late, however.
I do find it frustrating that the user didn’t make a move for the first ten days, and if you look on their page, they have many games going on it once. We never change ratings on chess.com, and any resignation is final. What I can do, however, is recommend to our developers that we cap the amount of live games a player can have and work on putting some more fairplay restrictions in. Since the game was a 14 day time limit, the user didn’t technically break any rules, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work to try and discourage that kind of behavior.
Just to let you know, we are working on a “Trusted Player” score to try and combat this in the future. When people break the Fair Play policy, it would lower their score. When you go to make a challenge, you would be then able to choose the Trusted Player score as well as the rating you wanted to play against. I know this doesn’t help immediately, but this does seem to be the most even handed way I can think of to try and address these issues on a large scale.
I am playing Online chess with a 14 day time control. It is already past 10 days and still waiting for white to make his second move.
Do I have any recourse for stalling the game? Can I report this, and how do I do it. Can I cancel the game?