Stalling is why I stopped playing rapid games and switched to blitz. Sad. My advice is report them and get out a chess puzzle book to keep you busy while you wait. And keep the screen in view.
What percentage of your won games were stalled?
In correspondence, someone took the max limit to make forced moves. That made me wonder if I should do a long guaranteed crush or a risky attack to finish it. I stayed with guaranteed.
I think it's worse on lichess. Either way, you could check your email, browse internet while your opponent is "thinking."
Thanks, I'll do just that.
About 9% of games were stalled.
Not much, but enough to waste some time.
Internet chess has obviously produced a generation of spoiled whinny impatient players who can't be happy with the win alone, but also WANT like only babies can want, that the opponent loses with grace and good manners, almost saying "thank you" or something such.
Pathetic people with no honour and no sportmanship.
Lol, it's just bad manner when the stalling player has no intention to play the game. They have already given up the game, that's why they have stopped making a move. If so either you resign or just disconnect. It saves everyone's time. How is that a spoiled behavior for wanting that?
If you can't stand contemplating the agony of those you hurt, maybe you should then play some sport where you don't have to hurt anyone. Just saying.
Dude, you must be pretty stupid, it's a game. If it hurt so much to lose this made up game either study and get better or give up, lol. It's not that complicated.
Dioude, yo most bay stoopid, iz noe game, iz a sport where your goal is to "check mate" aka "kill the king".
Ah, chess is not a sport...https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-titles-for-life-serious-discussion
Alas, chess.com forum threads has just plain zero authority over this issue.
Oh yea, people sitting in front of a computer or over the board are sweating training and playing this intensive "sport" called chess like Basketball, Tennis, Soccer, Baseball or any of the traditional sport.
The closest thing chess is to esports like playing a computer game competitively.
Just deal with it. If stalling opponents is your biggest problem, count your blessings and quit whining. Welcome to life, where people don't always behave the way you'd prefer and don't always have good manners. Not exactly a shocker.
You may cry and yell all you want, you're not in charge of deciding what is what in the matter of sports.
Lol, no one is crying nor yelling. Just because someone in charge decides to call chess "sport" doesn't make it a sport. I don't have to agree with it.
Do you ever use your brain or just follow what you have been told all your life?
What next? Are you going to "use your brain" and tell us the sun sets to the East or something?
Only in the Southern Hemisphere.
No.
I prefer to play against bots. No clock. Go as fast or slow as I want. I just got a draw against Antonio today. I'm learning positional chess by seeing how it prioritizes its moves. I'm sensing mating attacks and avoiding them. Antonio sacked a knight for an attack and then gave me perpetual check since I would not let it invate with tempo checks. I guess it did not want to fight me a piece down.
I prefer to play against bots. No clock. Go as fast or slow as I want. I just got a draw against Antonio today. I'm learning positional chess by seeing how it prioritizes its moves. I'm sensing mating attacks and avoiding them. Antonio sacked a knight for an attack and then gave me perpetual check since I would not let it invate with tempo checks. I guess it did not want to fight me a piece down.
Oh come on, playing vs bot is no fun, what makes bot is different from human is is bot doesen't have feeling, they don't feel pressure/scare/uncomfortable when having a winning bad or losing position, they don't feel happy (you can throw away a winning position if you are too happy and thinks every moves is ok) when have a winning position. That's what my dad told me, and I think it's true, one more thing is we can't chat with them.
That is why I almost never play vs a bot
I don’t even think you can control the player from stalling.
You can play a bot in another window, side by side the first one, maybe on another site or your computer, and then drop that game once you win against the human.
People Stalling ? Who would have thought ?
Here I wished to write few lines.
1) Ten minutes game. Ten minutes is given for thinking. If you take it or not
2) If you disagree about the time speed. then choose 5 minutes. or 3 minutes Blitz. Nobody won't mind.
3) the lesser time you spend in chess, the more your winning probability. So use the strategy. I played the blitz. And I did not stop even I was always 1st# that time but I knew that my 2nd and 3rd position players are behind me. So my suggestion is .......... play and play faster and make a BIG gap between the number of trophies of your position. Hope this suggestion will work for you.
I myself being a low rated player got LEGEND few months ago. I have to work hard. my league players (2nd, 3rd and even 4th or 5th) up and down fluctuating. Very tough when I reached Champion league. I still remember the 2nd place owner was vigorous player. But somehow I beat him and won the league.
So it happens. Never mind. Just enjoy and have fun.
I make more blunders when I play blitz because...
1. I sometimes don't have enough time to think so I make hasty moves and viola: blundered queen.
2. Easy to lose on time :/