14 Days Daily Game - Started in Aug and still running !!

Team, See this game

I dont know what the opponent is using to extend his date

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/350798951

This guy comes after every 10 + days and makes 1 or 2 moves and goes away. Sometimes he is seen as on vacation. Last time I checked he just had a few hours left for the clock to end. Now he gets another 14 and this is irritating me. I don't want to resign to this trickster. 

Every move you make adds a certain amount of time to your clock. Report him if you feel he is stalling

No wonder he is stalling you have a 4+ advantage 

Thanks for the quick response. But every move cant add additional 14 days to his clock. You see game started Aug 12 - even with all vacations how can it run for 4 months and 8 days !!  I already reported him, didn't make any difference. 

I guess the only way is to play to the end. If you want more daily games get some new challenges and maybe do 3 at a time. You hav Elmore chances of good opponents

Sure thanks, but this game is just irritating me for just the way the opponent is coming back after n number of days and leaving once he made a single move. 

Yeah stalling is exactly why I'm quitting long correspondence games. I think 1 day per move is best. Probably 3 days is the maximum.

The problem is that even though the opponent is being rude by stalling/vacationing to avoid resigning, you agreed to play a 14-day per move game, so unfortunately they are allowed to use all of that time if they wish.

Agreed on all points. But still this is 14 days game and you see as of writing this post we are into 130 days !! 

A friend of mine had a chess.com tournament game go on for a year and a half.

It sounds like the opponent is making moves and isn't using vacation to prolong a hopelessly lost game, so the site isn't going to do anything about it. Players are allowed to use 100% of their move time and vacation, as long as they are not using the vacation to not move in a completely lost game. 

Assuming you moved immediately after they make their moves, a 14-day per move game could take a lot longer; 10 moves could take 140 days without any vacation being used. That game is well beyond that. To clarify, you are playing a 14 days per move daily game. That allows each player to make a move once every 14 days. I think you may be misunderstanding the time control.

I had a couple 14-day per move tourneys go on for over 3 years.

https://www.chess.com/tournament/feel-the-love-14-days-per-movehttps://www.chess.com/tournament/below-1600-tourtament

Ohh Really  !!!! I thought its 14 days in total to complete the game. I didnt know that, and I dont play 14 days anymore.

Correct. Daily time control games are days per move for each player.

Now before just few hours remaining for the game to end , this guy moved to vacation mode. Is there any rule against this ?

Daily Chess here is different than traditional correspondence chess.

In traditional correspondence, it's 10 moves in a certain amount of time, typically 50 days, then you get 50 more.

Here, it's each move instead.  You are playing 14 days per move.  So the fact the game started in August is not at all surprising.

In fact, even at 10 moves in 50 days, which is a lot faster than 14 days per move, I have 38 correspondence games on ICCF still ongoing at the moment.  Of those 38 games, the "oldest" ongoing game started January 13th, 2021 (almost a year ago).

There is nothing to report.

Also, if you are a member (Diamond, Premium, etc), you have timeout protection.  When your clock is down to 6 hours, you go into auto-vacation mode with 2 exceptions:

A) It's a no vacation tournament

B) You have no vacation time left

In those 2 cases, he'd lose on time.

Of course not. Vacation time is a function to take a break no matter what. It's their vacation days running out, not yours. 

But maybe it's even not intentional. If you're a premium member you'll be put on vacation automatically and you can't switch it off. This function seems to be faulty. I was put on vacation and got an inbox message saying "less than 30 minutes" but indeed I've got 4 hours left.

However, if you agree with someone to play 14 days it is their right to take this time for their moves.  Especially in losing positions. And if they take vacation, let them. You'll win anyways.