letting the clock run down when getting beat

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DG8

That's an empty discussion. No offence. Chess.com won't do anithing about it.

royalbishop
FirebrandX wrote:
BorgQueen wrote:
FirebrandX wrote:
I know exactly how you feel. At least chess.com does have a fair play policy. Most sites & servers I frequent leave you dealing with sore losers completely on your own. Ultimately I just had to accept the problem and limit my live games to 5 minutes or less. You might like my blog on shameful chess players:

http://www.chess.com/blog/FirebrandX/chess-players-hall-of-shame

Haha, that's an excellent blog right there :-)

Thanks! What cracks me up is how my "Devil's Advocate" prediction came true about replies to the blog.


My rabbit is going to be very happy when i cut your foot off. Do i have rub it to get what i want?

royalbishop

........Aaaaaaah.

Which one do you think i have a better chance catching Roger Rabbit or Bugs Bunny.

crypticplague

half the games i win have been stalled

bean_Fischer

Start another 30 min game if you can handle them. I am sure you can, but the previous game would be a distraction.

 
royalbishop
crypticplague wrote:

half the games i win have been stalled


Do you have a lock on that? Where is the sign up sheet?

billyblatt
NORSPAN20 wrote:

what a load of rubbish..each player has the right to use thier TIME however they wish..get with the programe

Everyone has the right to do as they wish to. That is why some people say they have the right to bear arms. You are free do as you please, you can do whatever you want in your time. But I also have to right to know your history, and then act accordingly, and then simply, choose not to play with you.

billyblatt

There will be more. It is obnoxious, it's legal, get over it.

Oraoradeki

One player let their time run out (in live Blitz), then offered me a rematch few minutes later.

billyblatt
BorgQueen wrote:
billyblatt wrote:
...But I also have to right to know your history, and then act accordingly, and then simply, choose not to play with you.

Agree, but unfortunately if anyone's history gets too tarnished, they can just close their account and spam another one.  You never really know who you're dealing with on the Internet!

True. But I'm hoping that after they do this a few times, they might just give up. I don't know,  maybe I am counting on people being reasonable and to eventually grow up; after they realise that their childish strategy to acquire happiness is failing. 

billyblatt
BorgQueen wrote:

Yes, I used to hold hopes that people such as this will eventually grow up.

Still waiting...

I think perhaps they do, but then there are two more new idiots to replace them.

I can't wait for scientists to come up with a vaccine for stupid.

you just have to become the reluctant yoda...

Mandy711

Get used to it. There's nothing anyone can do with the present rules. Chess is won by checkmate, resignation or time forfeit. Some prefer to lose by time forfeit.

royalbishop
billyblatt wrote:
BorgQueen wrote:

Yes, I used to hold hopes that people such as this will eventually grow up.

Still waiting...

I think perhaps they do, but then there are two more new idiots to replace them.

I can't wait for scientists to come up with a vaccine for stupid.

you just have to become the reluctant yoda...

Inn ia similar situation i suggest a list:

Under the correct situations i think chess.com would agree to this idea.

1) Link to game

2) No name mentioned of opponent at any time.

3) Deatails of game. Ex 3 Day/Move ,Rated, Team Match in " __" League

                                 1 Day/Move, Rated , Open Seek

4) Other details. Started May 1 on move 34.

5) Brief comment on game not with a limit of 200 characters.

dragonslayer1994

I do everything in my power to get a win because I won't give up. If that means having the willpower to wait longer than your opponent by running out the clock when all hope is gone, then that's what I'm going to do. I don't care if you call it cheap or dirty, I call it perseverance. You agreed to a game of a given time limit which means I can use my time as I see fit. 

DoktorVonStrudel

for the most part the players that let their clock run down when their position is lost are to angry to give you the satisfaction of winning and want you to pay with your time for humilating them with the loss.  That is how they see it - they are humilated and want you to pay for it by making you wait.  so, after their time runs out, they go on to play another game, and carry the satisfaction that they did not resign to you.  I would say that on ICC this now happens about 30 percent of the time.  So, I have a little fun with it.  I know that most likely they are looking forward to the next game but are waiting for the clock to run down.  If i have something else i wanted to do, i.e., watch a movie, then i add 2 hours to their time!  So now, they have to wait for their time to run down before they can play again.  They get ticked off for waiting and disconnect and forfeit.  They hate doing this because they realize that you made them act! and they realize that you know this.  it is revenge but i love it!  Quite often after about an hour they make a move just to see if you are still around.  I leave my computer speaker on loud and hear the move click wherever i am in my apartment and then come back and make my next move ..... again giving the message .... yup!  made you move, huh!  If i want to play more games i don't do this and just let the clock run down, but if i have had enough chess and know there are other things i want to do within earshot of the computer .... i hit back

SamValladar3s

*wins in 3 minutes

*complains about not winning in 2.

jk brah I feel ya!

Lisbon_Lions

I hadn't considered connection issues. Doh! I was playing someone that statistically was a better player. I guess it could have been coincidental that after a number of moves that put my opponent under a lot of pressure that he went silent. I guess I was a bit frustrated that as I am still learning and felt that I had the beating of him only to have 18 minutes of the clock running down. I perhaps need to be less judgemental as it may well have been a connection issue.

 

fosterdill
Knightly_News wrote:
sapientdust wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:

Yeah, as injustices go this is right up there with slavery and the fight for universal suffrage.

You mock, but did slavery or the lack of universal suffrage ever force anyone to have to play out a won game for another 10 minutes?

Get some perspective!

I'm not mocking at all.  I believe it is right, just and sensible that chess.com help people have a means of filtering out the abusers of the clock, and I'm speaking out about it and fighting for it, not being intimidated by people who tell me to shut up deal with it and quit whining.  What's the difference except scale.  I'm not saying I've got it as bad, I'm saying the modality of how I deal with the issue shares some similarities.

I'm pretty sure they were kidding

eagle-26
Eniamar wrote:

The same way I handled it when a guy challenged me to a 60 minute game and I wasn't paying attention.

I grabbed a book and turned up my volume and just read till he timed out.

Yes, I have done this too!  Great suggestion.

korotky_trinity
jmclean wrote:

How do you handle some idiot who you are beating pretty badly and there is 15 minutes left in the game and they run the clock down to one second and then make a move or they just walk away and let tthe clock run out ??

For me personally it's a big problem. And I don't know how to solve that.

Seems they call it "stalling the game".