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ChessWitch

Probably each of you, at least occasionally meets an opp onent who has no guts and dignity to admit his loss. What they do is they start spending all 3 days per a move in a position where even your pet can finish them blindfoldly. They do it even if before that they sent 20 moves an hour. And they don't start doing that  unless they find themselves totally lost. You know it's a pain to have those games open. It can take you a couple of months to finish someone's lonely king even with a bunch of extra pieces. One can advise simply not to play such  "fart masters". I agree, but the problem is you never know. Explore every opponent's history? - It is not much amusing. Here is my proposal. Why not to create a list here where everyone can put a name with whom he experinced such a shallow non-gentleman behavior. We can keep it up-to-date. And it will be very useful to decide whether you want to play that guy or not. It's really interesting what you think about this. 


ChessWitch

And here are my own first nominies:  

1.mydarlingron (1829)

2. JennaJameson (1615) (in fact a man is hiding behind this name and female photo)


Reservesmonkey
Please add me to the list. I don't stall games but you guys are such authoritarians I want to be as far away as possible!
Quix

How about a blacklist for continuously repeated topics?


wetpaste
thats just the way I play, I check here every once and a while and look at my alerts. If there is a move to make I make it. A lot of those games are ones that I started and made a bunch of moves in and didn't have time or energy to finish. Thats why this is not live chess. Why don't you whiners play live chess on a server or something if you care at all about speed.
Igornikus
I think it's a good idea. In a competitive field you can't be nice to everybody, and gentleman behavior is always appreciated. Certainly the author doesn't mean very beginners. But when you are a class A player it stinks when you continue a hopeless delay, only hoping that something bad may happen in life to the winner of the game. Really! 
Igornikus
And I can add. One of the titled players on this forum, a friend of mine, simply dropped half his games exactly because of such tricks. And he is not interested anymore to try again. Congrats to his opponents who got full points being a few pieces down. Nice job! Keep up.
erik
guys - we're working on a solution to this :)
Igornikus
erik wrote: guys - we're working on a solution to this :)

Sounds good news, Erik :-), if only there is a solution. Anyway I just thought there is nothing inappropriate in sharing opinions about your opponent's time-use preferences :-). Just a kind of "customer report" :-). Plus, whoever mentioned on such a list (suggested), you always can go to look at those games and form your own opinion. Am I wrong? 


TonightOnly
I think there is a solution without libeling fellow community members.
doctor-ice
Quixotical wrote:

How about a blacklist for continuously repeated topics?


Now that i can agree with! Please ladies and gentlemen "grow up"! You sound like bickering little kids. Just ignore the cheaters,vacation frauds,obnoxious frauds and enjoy the games-there are plenty of folks who come here simply to play chess and don't have an agenda. Yell


jamjosh
There is no way to know for sure if someone is ducking you and only making moves when they have a chance to win, I played JennaJamison myself and had no such problem. If you want your games played more quickly then select the 1 day per move for all your games. That will eliminate the frustration of waiting on your opponent. I like to get my games over with as soon as possible like most of you, but if you are playing a 14 day game, expect each move to take 14 days... 
erik
guys - seriously, we have a really neat way to take care of this soon. kinda like a consumer report / feedback thingy :)
Igornikus
erik wrote: guys - we're working on a solution to this :)

As I noticed, in every player's statistics there is such thing as time/move. It might be a very useful criteria. Those who constantly procrastinate resignation cannot have it impressive. Why not to add it as another column on the players list we have here? It is not an ultimate solution of course, but it will really give some idea who is who at that point. 


jkor
erik wrote: guys - seriously, we have a really neat way to take care of this soon. kinda like a consumer report / feedback thingy :)

When I suggested something similar in another topic, Refusal to resign (http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/refusal-to-resign?page=3), writing:

"What about a new feedback system that would allow everyone to leave his comment about the correctenes of players after every game, so that it would be possible to avoid non-reliable contenders?"

someone defined this as  a way of "ratting people out".

 

 

 


Igornikus
Igornikus wrote: erik wrote: guys - we're working on a solution to this :)

As I noticed, in every player's statistics there is such thing as time/move. It might be a very useful criteria. Those who constantly procrastinate resignation cannot have it impressive. Why not to add it as another column on the players list we have here? It is not an ultimate solution of course, but it will really give some idea who is who at that point. 


 Forgot to add: time/move in lost games Smile. Then it's almost perfect. You can say, in general everyone spends more time when he loses. That's right, but the difference between a resonable resistance and just delaying by all means seems to be signifficant.


hutter
Patience is the master of wisdom. Don't remember who's said this so let it be me.
batgirl
Nuttin' like a good ol' chess witch hunt.
ChessWitch
Reservesmonkey wrote: Please add me to the list. I don't stall games but you guys are such authoritarians I want to be as far away as possible!

 So nice of you! I mean self-reporting. Why ask? Simply add your name yourself.

However I looked through your lost games and didn't notice such behavior. Looks quite resonable for your rating. So I'm afraid you don't qualify.


ChessWitch
Quixotical wrote:

How about a blacklist for continuously repeated topics?


 It only proves the problem does exist.


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