there are a few reasons; here's one:
you start the game, you play 1.e4. your opponent doesn't move. their time does not start ticking. you wait. you wait. thank goodness, you click abort!
or another:
you put out an open seek. then some guy accepts it. unfortunately, it's a guy you played once before who exhibited bad sportsmanship, and you don't like playing with ... guys like that. so, you click abort!
there are a few reasons; here's one:
you start the game, you play 1.e4. your opponent doesn't move. their time does not start ticking. you wait. you wait. thank goodness, you click abort!
or another:
you put out an open seek. then some guy accepts it. unfortunately, it's a guy you played once before who exhibited bad sportsmanship, and you don't like playing with ... guys like that. so, you click abort!
For 'dpruess" : As for the first reason you gave, why doesn't his clock start ticking as soon as you make the first move? The second reason has some merit, but not enough to trump the negative aspect that I mentioned.
i like live chess, but you loose alot of time when your screen is looking to get back connected.
And also those people who click you away. very annoying.
dpruess, I have a question to ask, I once had a player (Can't remember his name, and wouldn't list it anyway) who abused my challenges, (whenever I put my challenge out he would accept it and wouldn't move) it this considered abuse of a challenge? and how many times does it have to be done in numbers (he aborted it 3/4/5 times?) for it to be abuse. Thanks.
The block button seems to be a reasonable solution here. How rude!
I don't abort often at all, but I have used the feature. Why? I meant to click on a 20 0 challenge, but that was accepted in the meantime, so my click hit the 1 0 game. I don't play bullet, and rarely blitz, so I abort the game if I get time controls I didn't want. This hasn't happened to me ever since I'm filtering games by time (only long games show for me) but it's a reasonable reason for the abort button.
I wouldn't have a problem with getting rid of the abort button if these misclicks were also eliminated (and that seems hard to do. A confirmation window would work, but it would slow people down.)
It should according to this help file.
When you block a user they will not be able to post notes to your account, send you any messages, accept your game seeks, be auto-matched in open seeks, join tournaments that you are running, or post in content that you created.
If it doesn't do that, it's quite a bug,
Why do we allow players to abort games? After accepting a challenge, this allows a player to view the opening move and abort if he doesn't like it. It seems to me that once you have accepted a game, you should be committed to it!