Is your life so constructed that a few minutes to wait for victory is inconceivable?
After the 6th game where I'm left to wait after the guy disconnects, yes, it's extremely frustrating. And it's not just waiting until the clock runs out, because another familiar tactic is to disconnect, wait one minute and then reconnect, make a move and disconnect again. If you aren't watching the board like a hawk after disconnection, your opponent wins on time.
After the 5th consecutive time of having an opponent disconnect when in a losing position, and making me sit there and run out the clock for several minutes, I decided to curse out the opponent AFTER HE DISCONNECTED. This, of course, prompted the computer to kick me off of live chess. I understand and fully appreciate the requirement to be civil--in fact, I insist on it and think it is a good policy. HOWEVER, the site needs to implement a "forfeit on disconnect" policy like ICC has. There are far too many people that disconnect when in a losing position instead of resigning, and ruin the experience for the rest of us. I even had one fellow admit that he was running out the clock just to upset me.
Please Chess.com, implement a forfeit-on-disconnect policy ASAP. I am a paying member, and am thinking of switching to ICC / Chesscube permanently only because of this issue.
Thanks.
I never understand these rants...how is it a "watse of your time" if they disconnect, but its not a waste of your time, if they compelet the game? You stay around either way?
What about when it's a legit disconnect where someone is having issues with their ISP or something?
I played a guy who disconnected 2 or 3 times during the game because his connection was bad, but he always reconnected and we finished the game.
It's annoying when someone disconnects because they're in a losing position, but I think the 5 minute timer (at least it's 5 minutes in 30|0 games) is good. Just wait the 5 minutes. His clock still runs while he's disconnected.
Watch the board like a hawk then. End of.
Right. Annoying a hell. And if it's a legitimate server issue, then tough mellons. That's why this thing is rated. Chess.com needs to adopt the ICC policy and make automatic forfeits on disconnect. That would resolve everything and cater to more disciplined and courteous people, I should say.
I empathize with jaqueconmate. I play live chess to take a break from whatever I am doing. 10-15 minutes playing chess IS a good break for me. Spending half of that time watching a board alone waiting for someone to reconnect is NOT a break; it's just frustrating.
I can't help thinking that it would not take that much processing power for chess.com to take players that _may_ have violated the Fair Play policy on, say, 5 of their games in a given week, run a chess program on the end positions and assess whether they were losing more than, say 75% of the time.
Whatever the exact numbers are, my point is that it shouldn't be hard to distinguish those with poor connections and those intentionally disconnecting instead of resigning.
After the 5th consecutive time of having an opponent disconnect when in a losing position, and making me sit there and run out the clock for several minutes, I decided to curse out the opponent AFTER HE DISCONNECTED. This, of course, prompted the computer to kick me off of live chess. I understand and fully appreciate the requirement to be civil--in fact, I insist on it and think it is a good policy. HOWEVER, the site needs to implement a "forfeit on disconnect" policy like ICC has. There are far too many people that disconnect when in a losing position instead of resigning, and ruin the experience for the rest of us. I even had one fellow admit that he was running out the clock just to upset me.
Please Chess.com, implement a forfeit-on-disconnect policy ASAP. I am a paying member, and am thinking of switching to ICC / Chesscube permanently only because of this issue.
Thanks.