Unsportsmanlike conduct
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Da-Nee
Dec 20, 2017
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#1
JohnClarkSwe accepted 24 hour game against me, aka Da-Nee. Monday with about an hour left he went on "vacation". About 17 hours later he returned and made a move. Today, Tuesday, he went on vacation again with 88 minutes. I consider this unsportsmanlike behavior. Can he be censured in some way or at least forfeit the game? Thank you.
Dec 20, 2017
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#2
My point is that a person should not accept a 24 hour game if they don't intend to make at least one move in the allotted time.
Dec 22, 2017
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#3
He made 2 moves yesterday after about a 22 hour "vacation" and started his next "vacation" with 7 minutes remaining. This is total BS. If I wanted to play a 2 day game, that is what I would have chosen that.
Dec 22, 2017
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#4
Hey there, I understand how you feel, however, I encourage you to be understanding. As has been pointed out, your opponent may have matters in their life that must be attended to. It also possible that your opponent has a lot of games and is using vacation mode so at to not time out.
In any case, chess.com discourages vacation time abuse and has certain measures in place to try and mitigate "frivolous use of vacation time". There is a "24 hour minimum" vacation time rule in place. What this means is that that a minimum of 24 hours is always deducted when a person goes into vacation mode.
If are confident your opponent is abusing vacation time, feel free to contact chess.com.
You may also refer to this support article on vacation abuse.
Dec 22, 2017
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#5
Thank you! I tried to find Support and thought that this forum was monitored by chess.com admins. Can anyone give me a link to Support?
Dec 22, 2017
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#6
Da-Nee wrote:
Thank you! I tried to find Support and thought that this forum was monitored by chess.com admins. Can anyone give me a link to Support?
You can contact support here: https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new
And you can read support articles here: https://support.chess.com
Dec 22, 2017
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#8
Da-Nee wrote:
Again, thank you!
You are most welcome :-)
Oh, and this was the "Vacation Time Abuse" support article I had linked in my first post: https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/articles/1444860-what-is-vacation-abuse-
Dec 22, 2017
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#10
I hope to finish the game before I die and I'm 68 now. Yes, I will block him for certain. :)
Dec 22, 2017
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#11
Da-Nee wrote:
I hope to finish the game before I die and I'm 68 now. Yes, I will block him for certain. :)
I'm sixty. Good to see you playing chess. There is a group here under "clubs" for we oldies. It's called the "Geezers." It's a fun group.
https://www.chess.com/club/geezers
Dec 24, 2017
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#12
FWIW, here is the final word:
Kayt replied:
Hey there!
Thank you for writing in! I took a look and JohnClarkSwe is no longer on vacation time. It looks like the system is automatically turning on the vacation time during these games.
What you are seeing is “auto-vacation”. When the premium member’s game gets low on time, auto-vacation will kick in and add 24 hours to their move time. If they “unpause” their games to make a move, the time to move will reflect the additional 24 hours, minus the time that has gone by since the game was put on vacation.
Every time this happens, 1 day is removed from their vacation hours.
Please let me know if you have any questions about this, or anything else on the site and I’ll be happy to help!
Kayt
Chess.com Member Support
Chess.com Member Support
Who knew there was such a thing as "auto-vacation" and personally, I think it sucks.