How to Win by Doing Nothing

A friend of mine brought this up recently, and I decided to post about it to see what chess.com thinks.

She said some people here tend to make 120-minute games, wait for the second move to be made and go idle afterwards. You'll be heavily tempted to abort the game and lose points (who's going to wait two hours?).

What's the solution?

 You don't lose points until move four. My solution is to play only 20 minutes or less.

Well I for one would still not abort and take the win.  I had someone do this to me in a 60 min game and then he played like twenty min later.  However, he did begin to play afterwards.  I guess he thought I would leave and he would take the win or he had life situations to take care of.  Some people at least warn me that they need to come back and forth sometimes so it could be long.  I then tell them it's ok because I'm trying to play slow myself and that's why we are playing 60 or 90 min games.  But yes it's a pain when you plan to play a nice long game and end up having to check up on the counter instead of playing.

Anyone who does that should not be playing chess. Its completely pointless.

Just do something else in front of the computer.

You spelled "be a loser" wrong in the forum topic.

That then explains an unresolved point distribution issue I was experiencing; I had thought it was by the second move that the game was on (based on the abort button changing to resign).

I totally agree with your solution. But I know that at some stage I'll want to play a really long game to think about moves really thoroughly. I guess I'll have to leave that option to play only against friends.

I believe chess.com should implement a "check" button of some type that the user to move should press every quantity of minutes to keep him from losing. That way you're both at least forced to be near the computer.

Hey that is a great idea about the check button.  If a player is thinking for more than say 5 or 10 minutes for one move, he must press the check button when prompted.  Makes me think about some games where I was taking awhile to play and the person would ask in chat If I was still there. :)  Of course I would say I'm thinking...

This is something we've added into live chess recently

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/171/0/fair-play-policy

Okay, that makes sense.

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I strongly disagree with check button, that can cause issues and be annoying for the few that play long games. That forces someone to "communicate" a little, well im not sure thats a problem, but he can do so via chat. Chat is optional (can be disabled though), creating a check button is forced and unavoidable, and... I dunno, I just don't like the idea, its implementing more things into "chess" as we know it.