Suspicious vacation in bad position

It would be annoying if you had to sit over the board with him, but it's the internet.  Just start another game and forget about it.

I understand ur point, but nevertheless unsportsmanlike behaviour annoys me. It should be noted too, that when this happens in a tournie the whole thing can be held up.

I agree entirely, the rules are clear, but don't seem to be enforced.

Vacation abuse occurs when players use vacation time simply to prolong games that are completely and hopelessly lost.

"Rookover" is right to complain, as it is not in the spirit of chess.

Whaleeyeman: The "reasonable" debate is always an easy response! clearly people who delay for weeks on end simply to stop someone winning is clearly not being reasonable. To be frank, if you can't see ur next move within a day or two then ur probably never going to see it.

how about this one. Tourn starts ,and it's vacation time.......

@eddy: yep, seen that one before!

You're missing the point; it is indeed "stupid", which is why it is not needed on this site.

Rookover....unfortunately there are some "players"  who will use  vacation just to annoy you...and yes,  is annoying....try not to stress....not worth it...you will win any way :)

Fair enough, so perhaps you could elaborate?

No need to apologise, thanks for trying.

How does the vacation time work for a premium membership? Because if you are not premium member you only have 30 days in TOTAL. But my opponent is premium. Does it mean that there is a difference of treatment between premium and non-premium members here?

The other thing is the poor sportmanship: if I saw that I was going to be checkmated in two moves and knew that I was going on vacation, I would resigned straight away, at least as a courtesy to my opponent. I think this point is very important to be highlighted!

Finally, thank you very much OldHastonian for reminding us the rules on vacation in this forum.

I just wish they paid us for it like companies do. :)))))))

A related matter is the go slow merchants in lost games.

Say it is a seven day game,the opening and middle games responses come in a day or two; lost end games the response is at the last moment. Are they wanting for me to drop dead?

A lot of narrow one-sided thinking in this thread. 1. I have started a tournament in vacation. 2. I make all of my moves late, but sometimes blitz out an opening. I have a lot of games going. I was too excited and joined everything when I found chess.com 3. I am in a completely won game (K+R+4pawns v. K+4pawns and my opp keeps stalling (in and out of vacation for a month now). Other people are complaining, but I don't worry. I will win in the end.

Rookover,

You can get your panties out of a bunch. I resigned our game. I went on vacation to annoy a different player (I didn't intend to annoy you) due to some lude and downright angering comments he (or she) was making in a different online game with me. This othe player put a sour taste in my mouth and I initially left chess.com and stopped playing all togher; then I played blitz games on my mobile phone as I was still pissed off at the other player and I didn't want to start online play again.

Yes, it's stupid. No, I don't care. But really? A whole thread about it? Have you got nothing better to do with your life?

One of the problems vac. time creates is the playing of way too many games.Vac. time kicks in auto. when they are unable to keep up.OF course 3/4 months  vac. will be gone and then --?  Best  is tourns. where day it starts people go on vac. rather then move....not sure why, but sure makes a mess of things

@mjconns: nice attitude...by the way, vacation time is one of the most debated and frustrating issues on chess.com. Makes perfectly good sense to have a thread about it. Clearly others think so too, otherwise there wouldn't be so many posts.

All he had to do was message me and ask me about it and I would've realized it was annoying him and resigned the game much sooner.

Ah, so it was really his fault?

You made him wait 6 weeks when you were in this position, because someone else annoyed you?

Unbelievable.