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Can someone tell me about flagging?

Can someone please tell me about flagging? I know that it is about time but not much else. Sorry if this is spam!

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RookAtE6
It is when your opponent has only a few seconds left and you play really quickly to win on time, I think.
Apparently older chess clocks had a "flag" or a physical entity that would fall when time is up, hence the term "flagging".
#1.
Flagging is something that many people consider "Bad-sportsmanship".

#5.
Not exactly, flagging is more like "I made moves with the intention to make your time go to 0, and it worked".
#7.

Yes, and also doing a lot of "Dirty tricks" as people like to call them, like giving a lot of checks, threatening pieces when your opponent is in time-trouble and (probably) pre-moves, so you can take the pieces, etc.
like its you do game on 3 hours someone joins in it and you wait while he will leave or resign
thats i think flagging

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