Please report those players.
What is the deal with people waiting to do an obvious checkmate?
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samunoz81 wrote:
Please report those players.
Yeah I should do that I usually forget to.
BadeeyaDancininSeptember wrote:
I was playing somebody today and they had an obvious checkmate in one move. For whatever reason they decided to wait to do the checkmate. So 10 seconds pass and I know I'm going to lose so I go to a different tab to read a reddit thread about people's favorite pizza places in my town. After a while I go back and it turns out they didn't do the checkmate they instead waited 1:40 and did a pointless move I guess to draw things out further? I had 2 minutes left on my clock, so I went back to reading the article haha. The crazy thing is they waited for my clock to run down! Why do people do this?! It seems to happen about 1 out of every 50 games for me and I just don't see the point.
What may be obvious for you may not be for another person. Or they were planning on promoting all their material for an overkill mate.
Letting your clock run down instead of resigning or moving is considered poor sportsmanship and will get your account flagged if you do it too often.
https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8598007-what-is-chess-com-s-sportsmanship-policy
samunoz81 wrote:
Please report those players.
Nothing will be done against the player actually making their moves.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
BadeeyaDancininSeptember wrote:
I was playing somebody today and they had an obvious checkmate in one move. For whatever reason they decided to wait to do the checkmate. So 10 seconds pass and I know I'm going to lose so I go to a different tab to read a reddit thread about people's favorite pizza places in my town. After a while I go back and it turns out they didn't do the checkmate they instead waited 1:40 and did a pointless move I guess to draw things out further? I had 2 minutes left on my clock, so I went back to reading the article haha. The crazy thing is they waited for my clock to run down! Why do people do this?! It seems to happen about 1 out of every 50 games for me and I just don't see the point.
What may be obvious for you may not be for another person. Or they were planning on promoting all their material for an overkill mate.
Letting you clock run down instead of resigning or moving is considered poor sportsmanship and will get your account flagged if you do it too often.
https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8598007-what-is-chess-com-s-sportsmanship-policy
It was obvious. Any person with common sense could see that. And anyway, I didn't let my clock run down, I simply read an article while I was taking part in a game. Are we not allowed to multitask while playing? I find that a bit intrusive.
BadeeyaDancininSeptember wrote:
It was obvious. Any person with common sense could see that. And anyway, I didn't let my clock run down, I simply read an article while I was taking part in a game. Are we not allowed to multitask while playing? I find that a bit intrusive.
You basically said you ignored the game on your move and instead read an article for two minutes and your opponent waited....🤔
I was playing somebody today and they had an obvious checkmate in one move. For whatever reason they decided to wait to do the checkmate. So 10 seconds pass and I know I'm going to lose so I go to a different tab to read a reddit thread about people's favorite pizza places in my town. After a while I go back and it turns out they didn't do the checkmate they instead waited 1:40 and did a pointless move I guess to draw things out further? I had 2 minutes left on my clock, so I went back to reading the article haha. The crazy thing is they waited for my clock to run down! Why do people do this?! It seems to happen about 1 out of every 50 games for me and I just don't see the point.