DavidStyles wrote:
The moral of the story?
How a player chooses to use the time on his clock is entirely his own business!
My opponent can be carefully analysing the position, or he can be going to the toilet, or the door, or the fridge, or strategising how to drag a hippo from a marsh, or getting in a quick snooze, I am really not going to complain, and it's looking in this thread like that's the majority view, despite the site clearly having received complaints from the (seems like a vocal minority) other camp.
How a player chooses to use the time on his clock is entirely his own business!
My opponent can be carefully analysing the position, or he can be going to the toilet, or the door, or the fridge, or strategising how to drag a hippo from a marsh, or getting in a quick snooze, I am really not going to complain, and it's looking in this thread like that's the majority view, despite the site clearly having received complaints from the (seems like a vocal minority) other camp.
Yes so true.
If the server is going to abruptly force the game to be abandoned, then at the VERY LEAST they should give a 30 second WARNING.
You can not always hear the "move" sound, and the web java app does not always make it clear that it IS your time to move.
This sudden nitty BS policy is meritless and creates a problem far worse than the one it is "supposed" to fix.
What happens MOST OFTEN is the OPPONET is TAKING SO LONE to move that one is distracted waiting for that move, such that when they finally make it it may go unnoticed.
The SOUND for MOVES does not always play. And there is NO WARNIGN that the game is about to be forced abandoned.
Chess.com needs to fix this - the concept is asisnine.
I rarely weigh in vs. chess.com, but if players are being accused of "stalling" in a timed game (ie Live Chess) something is wrong - and not with the player. Anyone who doesn't like being "stalled" should start playing CC, blitz or some other game without a clock instead. Being given a TL in any sort of chess game means that you're allowed to allot the TL as you see fit. End of story.