Stalling in Daily Chess.

For this example I will take a 1 day time control. Why do people wait the maximum amount of time to make a move, every move? Why not, if you are online anyway, make 2 or more moves in a day? I've seen people that are online everyday for hours and they always only like to make one move.

Okay, so you have the random trolls that just play to be annoying and get attention, but let's not talk about them. I know most people have a different reason, I would like to know just what that reason is.

Obviously you also have people that want to have the maximum chance that a person times out and tries to make the game as long as possible, because in the long run this will positively affect their win rate (not necessarily rating).

Some people may just like to do their daily round of dailies and then do some puzzles or play some games of another format.

These are the three options I can think of. I think these options are all very annoying for the majority of the daily chess community and maybe they don't even know (or care). I know they play within the rules, but it takes out the fun a little.

(I won't even mention vacation time, but that's easily avoidable by only joining 'no vacation' tournaments)

it is called daily for a reason tbh

I mentioned in the OP that I know they play within the rules. Still 95% of the daily chess players do not only play one move per game per day. When you have a big tournament of a couple of thousand players, 99% is always waiting for days, weeks or even months on a handful of people that play like this.

"it is called daily for a reason tbh" That's like when in the Tour de France a sprint ends in people falling everywhere, breaking all kinds of bones in their bodies, because a guy didn't restrain his dog and then saying "It's called cycling for a reason tbh."

Cycling is not bone breaking. Daily chess is… well… daily.

Cycling definitely is bone breaking. There is not a tour where there are no bones broken. So it's part of the sport, but that doesn't make it alright, which is my point exactly. Daily chess you have a maximum of one day per move in this example, but to purposely try to look up those boundaries isn't good sportsmanship imho.

but its in the name tho DAILY (meaning)chess so it isnt bad sportmanship. ig if ur opponent usually plays faster then gets into a losing position then takes longer to do their moves it is bad sportsmanship butother than that it is fine

@toxic_rabbit I already explained why this is not true in my opinion. Your opinion is clear and I respect it, I just do not agree with it.

@woollensock2 I already do. I enjoy daily chess too, only a small percentage of players make it a little less enjoyable, as I mentioned already. That is no reason to stop doing it. I just wanted to point some thing out, as I can imagine a lot of people will think the same about it.

I play daily chess primarily and I agree it’s not stalling. I hate 2-3 day move games painful

I almost never go to Amsterdam, so I can't say... I guess it's easily googleable though. I imagine it will be somewhere near Museumplein.

I wonder if, when I log on with my phone, make a move, and then return to my paid job, if the website still shows me as logged in even though I'm not playing chess? I'm not so sure showing logged on absolutely means they are active on the site...

Maybe they have a set routine and only play their daily chess moves at a certain time of the day.

Maybe they want to make sure they've thought the move out as well as they can.

https://heavenly-holland.com/max-euwe-square/

Playing more than one move per day can make daily chess tiresome (especially for those playing more than a few games at the same time).

One of the reasons I don't play it very often is that when I do, when I see that my opponent has made a move, I want to play as soon as I can. So I look at the position, for a half an hour for instance (if I can) and then I make a move. Playing this way and still trying to make good moves is a lot more time consuming than playing my regular live long games (60|0 or 45|45).

Playing in this manner is not the point of daily chess. The point of daily chess is to play as best as you can and really take your time. 1 day (or 14 days) per move is a time limit for a reason. People who are playing this way are playing daily chess at a pace that is comfortable for them, and that is why they have chosen to play 1 day per move or 14 days per move in the first place.

They are not stalling in their games, it is actually you who have chosen that time limit and you are not comfortable with it. 

It is pretty much the same as when someone tries playing 45|45 live game and then asks the other player to hurry up if he/she is taking 5 minutes on some moves. 

By the way, I am not talking about games where someone is in check and down a rook and is waiting for his/her time to gets to zero, that is indeed stalling.

"Why do people wait the maximum amount of time to make a move, every move?"

Because its their time to use as they want.

You signed up for the time control.

Just because you're impatient.  Don't expect others to be.

Some people (not all) that have hundreds of daily games going at the same time will typically only move on the games in which they have the least time. They aren’t interested in progressing any one particular game any quicker as there is simply no reason for them to. So once they’ve made their move against you, your game goes to the bottom of the pile until the time is almost up. It’s just one of those things that you have to accept will happen in a % of your games.