Same here. That's why I would rather choose playing chess face-to-face than playing online... And playing offline might be more fun and stressful 💀More importantly, you can feel your opponent is "alive" and is not cheating unlike online chess games you can't feel those anymore...😅
Reiteration of What To Do To Stallers
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Many people aren’t sitting there watching the board intently while making you wait for your turn, the one that won’t come. If they know they are going to lose, they most likely are doing to you a form of bad manners and violating chess.com’s fair play policy. They are most likely walking away and making you wait for the win due to timeout instead of resigning or allowing a checkmate.
I guess for some people it makes some of these people feel better about getting beat and it can be very annoying or frustrating to have to sit there and not finish your mating pattern. Someone had mentioned in another post to try and play fire with fire and make them wait minutes between moves. If you have the time to do this, is it really worth it? You’re not really bothering them as much as you’d think and you’re still drawing the game out even longer. Honestly, just let them do what they’re going to do, report it as stalling/quitting games and move on. They get reported enough chess.com will do something.
Another reason this is the better option is because technically you could be considered guilty of the same thing they’re doing (albeit harder to prove) and the goal is to try and encourage sportsmanship and fair play.
Just let them run their clock out, report them, and move onto the next. Nothing else is really worth it on a chess website…