Unsporting behaviour on Chess.com

Fischzauber wrote:

A message I sent an opponent just now - no names mentioned...Refusing a draw in a completely drawn endgame, so that my clock would run down, is not very sporting behaviour. In a chess tournament an arbiter would have declared it a draw, because you were making no effort to win other than on time. I will block you, because I have no wish to play people like you. You may have won that game, but you're obviously a loser. No one with any self-esteem would want to win in that way.

It was a blitz game. Time wins are legitimate.

I have lost many games that way. It hurts. I resolve to play faster.

Yeah, it was a blitz game, 10 minutes, no increment. Okay, I can see that in a blitz game it's no holds barred, it's just that I wouldn't want to win like that, and an arbiter would declare it a draw.

At the end, you were only eleven moves away from being able to claim the 50 move rule draw...

If the arbiter watches a game for some moves and sees that a game is drawn and one player is just shuffling a piece around until his opponent loses on time, he will declare the game a draw, or an ECF arbiter in a rapidplay game would - maybe blitz is different. Anyway, it'll teach me not to play blitz games on my smartphone in bright sunshine when I'm struggling to see the screen!

So your opponent took a legitimate win. You've accused him of unsporting behaviour and called him a loser. I guess an apology would be appropriate.

Nothing new. Read some already hundreds of post about this. By the way this is common even at higher levels, but less. And when you play without inc, you have to learn to play fast. 10 min/game is the one of the worst time controls. You have a lot of time and should not play quick, but then suddenly your time vanish and you basically have to play bullet game, because your opponents wants to flag you ,cuz he is moron like all. And also someone who thinks this is dead draw etc, actually he might be the one who missjudge the position.

I just said I wouldn't want to win that way myself. I would accept the draw offer straight away. I don't have a problem with losing as it happens. Maybe I should just stop playing blitz games when there's no increment on each move. That way he couldn't have waited for my clock to run down.

I think is better to develop constant speed, rather than lets say quick few moves, then you slow down a lot, then again you start moving extremely quick.. Not cool.

Play for example 5/5 or 10/5 15/10

And i know a lot of players they simple don't use their opponents time. When they have to wait for their opponent to move, they just do something other than calculating and focusing.

The OP is not correct, an arbiter would not rule it a draw.  What the OP is trying to invoke is the "insufficent losing chances" rule (I'm assuming at least one side had enough material to deliver mate).  If you had been playing a slow game (>G/29), the arbiter would simply impose a 5-second delay (assuming you weren't already using it) and order the game to continue.  This is one of the great advantages of digital clocks -- they make the arbiter/TD's life much easier since they no longer need to make subjective decisions about what is or is not a draw.  And therefor no arguments with irritated players who often don't understand the rules.

For speed chess, you are out of luck -- the arbiter would have not intervened at all.  Those who are unhappy with the scenario described by the OP should use a delay or increment.  That way if the game is truly drawn, both players can easily fullfill the requirements of the 50-move rule and claim the draw.  After all, if neither side can possibly win, then both players can safely bang out 50 legal moves (because of the delay or increment).

Thanks for all the responses. I can see the situation a lot more clearly now. I enjoy blitz chess, but only with incremental time controls from now on.