In a number of games I lately played, the opponent did not make a move and after I waited, it auto resigned from my end and I ended up losing points. How's this possible?
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Hello, I am playing a guy and he has three days left to move. His clock has a pause on the left side. His time has not been moving for the past few weeks. I don’t unemderstand why and want help. Is it because he quit chesscom or not?
I have an winning position on his m. About to promote and take his rook brought a skewer.
Him
‘Through a skewer’
Well what happened is he is using "Vacation" (all of us have access to it, premium members get longer).
His vacation time will eventually run out and he will loose on time.
His vacation time will eventually run out and he will loose on time.
My simple suggestion is - if the player is taking more than 2-3 min to make a move, I should receive an "Abort" option. Let it not affect their rating. But let it also not spoil the day for a person who is being forced to wait for 5+ min on the third move of a 30 min match. It is just not fair.
I am playing with someone on a 30 minute game - with Mawega476. After the first couple of minutes he lost two pieces. Then with 26 minutes left on the clock this player stopped playing completely until it went down to 0. I dont see why I should have to wait half an hour for them, or resign and lose points. Its terrible that chess.com do not have a policy for this that can be enforced
Kufu321 wrote:
I am playing with someone on a 30 minute game - with Mawega476. After the first couple of minutes he lost two pieces. Then with 26 minutes left on the clock this player stopped playing completely until it went down to 0. I dont see why I should have to wait half an hour for them, or resign and lose points. Its terrible that chess.com do not have a policy for this that can be enforced
That's what you get when you play rapid/long games. Also, don't say your opponent's name-- I think that's against one of chess.com's policies.
Oct 28, 2021
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What a Stupid policy look at the game I lost because this clover policy😒
you must have a processor for the game in the end...... it happened to me many times finally I decided to message you for this bad problem. I lost the game and the points and the immoral opponent won it
Oct 28, 2021
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#35
Alicalligraphist wrote:
What a Stupid policy look at the game I lost because this clover policy😒
you must have a processor for the game in the end...... it happened to me many times finally I decided to message you for this bad problem. I lost the game and the points and the immoral opponent won it
You got disconnected, so the game was counted as abandoned. I don't know why the site does that when it's not your move though.
https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues
https://support.chess.com/article/338-how-does-game-abandonment-work
Oct 28, 2021
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#36
But you gave him the chance to exploit my connection which lost after leaving the game for 5 mins, so you can’t ignore the main problem in policy
By the way he was waiting for such chance as he knows before that the opponent might loose his connection and this open the door to an unfair and cheater game
Oct 28, 2021
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#37
Alicalligraphist wrote:
But you gave him the chance to exploit my connection which lost after leaving the game for 5 mins, so you can’t ignore the main problem in policy
By the way he was waiting for such chance as he knows before that the opponent might loose his connection and this open the door to an unfair and cheater game
Pretty sure your opponent wasn't waiting for that to happen. They were just playing and likely surprised they got a win. The problem is that some player like to disconnect and make their opponent's wait for the win. The abandonment/disconnect process was put in to place to minimize that wait in such cases.
Again, I'm not sure why the site decided to count disconnections when it isn't even your turn; ideally they might start the timer but not count the game as abandoned until the it was the player's turn or even start the counter then.
Hello, thanks for adding the downtime limit in case a player leaves or closes the tab. But some people leave the tab open and go in 10-15-30min games. As we all say, please add a visible 1-2min per move limit or something. It's called momentum, and this fact destroys it!
Lugor wrote:
5 minutes would be okay. Right in the moment I'm playing a game against an Indian guy, who hasn't moved in the last 20 minutes. I still got another 8 to wait, just because he stopped in move 6
same
I have a suggestion. Maybe there could be a 10 minute timer for non-moves. If a player violates, they take a loss with 1.5-2x the normal points loss.