Spamming draw offers

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SantoshWildlifeArt

I had an opponent spam 5 or 6 draw offers within the span of a minute, when I was in a completely winning position. Just plain abusive behaviour to distract the opponent's focus & bully them into accepting the draw.

I think chess.com should put in place two new rules:

1. The draw offer button, if an offer is sent & declined, should be disabled for at least 30 seconds before another offer can be sent.

2. It should not be possible to send more than N draw offers per game, where N can be a reasonable number like 3 or 4, or perhaps N can be proportional to the time control.

ChesswithGautham

Agree 100%

Marcyful

3. There should be a toggleable option that lets opponents offer draws or automatically declines them.

Martin_Stahl
Marcyful wrote:

3. There should be a toggleable option that lets opponents offer draws or automatically declines them.

 

Moving automatically declines draw offers.

TheSwissPhoenix

I think you can just ignore it I lost a game once because I premoved a move, and in that move my opponent offered a draw, then won the game. 

tygxc

#1
Laws of Chess:
"11.5
It is forbidden to distract or annoy the opponent in any manner whatsoever. This includes unreasonable claims, unreasonable offers of a draw or the introduction of a source of noise into the playing area."
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018

IMHO the site should block further draw offers from one side after a draw offer has been declined. From then it is up to the declining side to offer a draw if the declining side has changed its opinion. That is also the etiquette over the board.

lordsofy123

Sheesh, I bet it would feel like hell being spammed the draw button every second. 

lordsofy123

Did you accept the offer tho?

monkey-armory

I thought there was a button were you could block draws for the game maybe that was on another sight though.

luh_gio

I just ignore and decline if I have enough time in my clock.

Duck

Just ignore it

BlueHen86

Ignore the draw offers and continue to play. You can report the offender afterwards if you feel that strongly about it.