Lousy Admin

Is there something in particular bothering you?  

I have always found that they responded to email requests. It may take a couple of days but they have always responded.

I would suggest posting whatever your problem is as a topic. Also, when contacting support staff, it is always helpful to
a) be polite
b) be precise in what your problem is,
c) if possible, describe what you expect them to do.

Keep in mind the staff needs to answer a lot of mails and when none of the above are met, it may be difficult to respond, if the admin has no clue what you want, what to do about it, and gets the impression of being treated rudely, motivation to respond may be low. This is personal experience, I am not a staff member.

I have rarely needed it, but always gotten answers which were helpful from the staff, so I suspect you should rethink your approach.

Ew, which one has lice?

Do you think it's just one? Don't be a nit picker.

http://www.chess.com/tournaments/games?id=114136.  Here is a complaint I have about one player who is in hundreds of tournament and delays the tournaments for months because he only moves the minimum amount required.  The link above is just one example, he is currently playing 4000 games. In the tournemanet referenced, the most recent non Mishra game ended 2 months ago. For 2 months everyone has been waiting for Mishra to finish his games. I do not understand how admin does not boot this kid.  At the very least I just would like a response to the email I have sent.  I have rarely sent admin any emails but on the few occassions I have there was no response.  I would prefer a site where these types of inconsiderate players are not allowed.

This again? As long as mishrafish is making his moves within the time limit, he's not violating any rules whether he plays 4 games or 4000. So no, staff aren't going to start arbitrarily banning people who aren't breaking any rules.

Join tournaments with a shorter time limit.  I make most of my moves based on when the time limit expires too simply because I just make moves when I have < 24 hours left in a game.  If I have more then I leave it for the next day unless I am especially enthusiastic.  I only have ~30 games going on in parallel though.

People should join tournaments with a more suitable time control when it bothers them.  It's like playing a 30 minute game and complaining because your opponent doesn't bash out all his moves in 10 minutes.

4000 ongoing games and over 10.000 completed. Not sure if I have to salute the guy or doubt the entire thing.

Is he making his moves in the time allowed?  If so then what is the issue?  

The issue is he is violating the spirit of the rule.  Every other player has finished their games months ago.  He is not advancing to the next round but the tournament has stalled.  The rules of Fair Play, as listed here state, "no player shall delay moves unnecessarily.  If he were just doing this to one or two tournaments it would be one thing but he is delaying hundreds of tournaments for months.  The one I posted is a move in 24 hours, it started in August and all other first round games were completed  in September, but we are all waiting for him to drag out his games.  He will not advance to round 2.  And since there was one reply again that began "not this again" I must assume I am not this only member complaining about this child.

Please explain how he is delaying moves unnecesasarily.

Both of his games in the toruney you link to are 3 days/move. He is not absolutely lost in either of the two games showing.

In this game (http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=112676608) I can see where he should have resigned but nowhere in the rules does it say he has to resign.

How are you proving that they are delaying uncessarily?  You have no idea what is going on in that persons life.  Im not justifying what they are doing, its just that there have been numerous posts about this same exact thing, and what it comes down to is 1 of 2 things:

1. Impatient people that sign up for 3 day per move tourney, and then complain the opponents takes 3 days per move.

2. People purposely delaying to drag out a loss.

Make your move and then wait.  Or just wait...I never understood this.  If youre winning, youre winning.

Here is the Fair Play rule:

Chess.com encourages players to be kind and show good sportsmanship. Our Fair Play policy expects that players will not...

• intentionally disconnect during games
• stall to make opponents wait unnecessarily 

Maybe the problem is your impatience and not the person taking the time they were given to make their moves.  Nobody is stopping you from withdrawing from the tournament, so you have no reason to complain.

This clause is open to interpretation, but is not applicable to this instance. 

So long as he is making his moves within the given time limit, it's within his own prerogative to take as long as he wants without flagging. 

If your opponent is making his moves in the time allowed what is the issue?  You have no idea what is going on with the opponent, and to just blindly accuse people is not right.  

 Yep...and your own words " It is a complete lack of sportsmanship and coutesy." 

And yet you feel you have the right to call the admins lousy, and accuse others of things you have no proof of.   That isnt being very courteous.  

The number of games being played is immaterial.  If there were only the games in one tournament, the player is allowed to use all of their time as they see fit.

The fair play rule is about things like using vacation to stall completely lost games, not using the time available. 

I have 200 games, and the best I can do is move when I have like 8 hours left. He has 4000.

Just to get to those two games in 3 days, he has to put in a lot of effort.

There's no such thing as "spirit of rules".  A rule is a rule, anything else is not a rule.  If a rule is badly defined then it is badly defined and open to whatever interpretation people want.

I am well aware that certain tournaments I am in mine are the only games in the round not to be completed, but that is of no concern to me at all.  I'm not going on vacation mode to extend games, I'm not playing on in a hopeless position just for the sake of it, I am simply making my moves towards the end of the time control available to me rather than at the beginning of it. A lot of people do the same.

There is no "intentionally delaying tournaments" at all.  In most tournaments I have no idea what the current status is, I simply have games of chess to play and they are part of tournaments because it is the simplest way to start numerous purposeful games of chess.

Making my move in all games immediately just means my opponents will move again sooner in many of them and I'll be back needing to make my next move again maybe only a few minutes after I made my last one.  I play live chess when I want that kind of speed.  Playing moves only in the games where I have 24 hours or less left allows me to regulate the speed at which games keep coming at me with demands on me to move.

It is perfectly valid and I imagine similar reasoning applies to many other people and the logic is the exact mirror of moaning about people being slow - I do not wish to be dictated to that I must play faster, just like you don't wish to be slowed down.

Play live chess if you want fast action.