I think this guy should lose his online chess access...

http://www.chess.com/echess/profile/EpicPwnage?show_all_current=1

I have blocked him myself after he accepted a bunch of my challenges and let the games expire. He made like 10 moves and then stopped. It looks like he does that an aweful lot.

Seems like a pretty big waste of a lot of players time.

He has more than 2000 games let expire! I think you should report him.

This is ridicolous. He is a spam.

All Games

The account of EpicPwnage has been closed for a few days, hence the timeouts.

What is the current 'official' line on limiting the maximum number of games of any one individual to a few hundred or so?

limit-number-of-games

number-of-active-games

how-many-games-are-too-many

The official line is that players may play as many games as they wish at one time. If they take on more than they can handle, they will inevitably lose said games.

Wow, some of those guys would want me closed down!

One complains of an opponent having 53 games. I've often had that many. Nobody waits for me, I have not seen many with a faster time per move than mine. I have almost 2000 games completed, 0% timeouts, average time per move around 30 mins. Current games 37. Who's gonna claim I'm not coping?

Family members? Friends? Employers? Co-workers?

I don't know. You tell me.

 Good one artfizz.  couldn stop laughing..

Just me and the cats, art.

And I only post in the forums while I wait for my opponents to move, maybe I should start a few more....

Sounds like a recipe for someone swiping your cheesecake!

why do you care if you your opponent loses on time? hello...you won..

Noooooooooooooooo ... you'd be missed in the forums. 

I once complained about one of my opponents having 70+ games in progress.  That was before I had been on Chess.com for very long... 

What everyone needs to realize is that this is correspondence Chess, and a player isn't required to make a move for days at a time.  I can comfortably keep about 20-25 games going at once; I know some people can do more.  But if someone else chooses to take on more than they can handle, that's not really your concern, is it?  You should focus on yourself, and playing the best game you can.  Stop worrying about other people so much.

 I disagree. there is no fun at all from winning on time. I want to win becaue I played better not because someone did not move.

I'm not in favor of limiting the number of games that can be played at once by a player. Obviously the freedom is great and everyone will be able to handle a different amount. I'm not complaining that he had X number of games active, but that such a huge percentage of them were time outs. And while on paper I shouldn't complain about a win, in reality, that was a good week worth of chess that just got flushed down the toilet. And that's just me... I shudder to think how much time that equates to if you add it together for everyone hes done it to.

In America would this breach his Constitutional rights I ask ??

The Right to Chess

I would rather be happy to win/lose a well fought game than enjoy winning on time or winning against a poor opponent.

Most here would agree with me.

Until recently there was an open seek limit.

"We've added a few more limitations to try and prevent this. She wont be able to accept other peoples seeks, and now she will not be able to add her own seeks unless its her move in FEWER than 10 games."  See post # 15.

Additionally only two open seeks per opponent could be accepted.

 well said there