№ 11,
The issue isn’t that someone was playing on in a lost position rather than resigning — you can’t get banned for that — it is rather that he was *not* playing, *nor* resigning, but simply doing nothing for an extended period, in order to deliberately waste his opponent’s time, from spite. This behavior is specifically against the Terms of Service here and at every other chess site I’m aware of, with good reason. The OP is a known time waster, and has been petulant about it in these forums before; disrespecting not only his opponents, but the site staff, and the rules of the game itself. Cf. lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/policy-change He admits to behaving this way, and laughs about it. 😐 I have no sympathy.
№ 9,
You agreed to play chess for X minutes, not twiddle your thumbs while your opponent reads a book, texts on his phone, or does anything else for X minutes. It is not “his time”; it is both of yours, and you have an explicit agreement with him as to how that time is to be spent. If he lets the bulk of it run out on a single turn, then by definition he *isn’t* using that time (at least not to play chess). He is therefore breaking the deal he made with you, and violating the most fundamental of all possible contracts between players. (Selah.)
Time wasting is unfortunately a real thing in online chess, for some reason. In a 30-minute game I have had an opponent make one move, then wait 29 minutes before making his second move, and finally play the rest of the game bullet style. Of course I easily defeated him; I also blocked & reported him immediately thereafter. 😉 If you aren’t going to play on, then you owe it to your opponent to resign so he can play with someone else, who actually wants to play chess. If you really were thinking, or your connection dropped, then you shouldn’t be affected by the ban. As № 20 observed, this needs to be habitual behavior. And in the OP’s case, it clearly is, since he’s been deliberately stalling in games for at least a year now.
The only “idiotic complaint” is therefore his. It is hypocritical to complain about being timed out for wasting time: if you really believe it’s your right not to move, then the site where you play has the right not to give you a game. 😛 That is only fair, and poetic justice. (“You banned me for not moving!” “Exactly.” “It’s my right not to move!” “And it’s our right to ban you.” 🤷) What goes around comes around. You weren’t going to play anyway, so what are you complaining about? Enjoy waiting until you can not-play again. See what it feels like to wait for no good reason. (Except that, in this case, there are actually two good reasons: [1] to discourage such behavior in the future, and [2] to spare other players in the meantime.) What’s sad is that in the past year, jugji has still not learned either common sense or common decency. I grow weary of his unrepentant attitude, and I hope he will be shadowbanned soon as well, to spare the rest of us having to hear him. My sincere advice to him is: Get a clue, or get lost.
PS: If you still disagree for some reason, then I encourage you to play a game with the OP. Maybe you’re a time waster too? Perhaps, if you both waste each other’s time in the same game, you will see how boring that game was, and finally understand why the rest of us want to avoid “playing” with people like you. 🙂
The issue isn’t that someone was playing on in a lost position rather than resigning — you can’t get banned for that — it is rather that he was *not* playing, *nor* resigning, but simply doing nothing for an extended period, in order to deliberately waste his opponent’s time, from spite. This behavior is specifically against the Terms of Service here and at every other chess site I’m aware of, with good reason. The OP is a known time waster, and has been petulant about it in these forums before; disrespecting not only his opponents, but the site staff, and the rules of the game itself. Cf. lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/policy-change He admits to behaving this way, and laughs about it. 😐 I have no sympathy.
№ 9,
You agreed to play chess for X minutes, not twiddle your thumbs while your opponent reads a book, texts on his phone, or does anything else for X minutes. It is not “his time”; it is both of yours, and you have an explicit agreement with him as to how that time is to be spent. If he lets the bulk of it run out on a single turn, then by definition he *isn’t* using that time (at least not to play chess). He is therefore breaking the deal he made with you, and violating the most fundamental of all possible contracts between players. (Selah.)
Time wasting is unfortunately a real thing in online chess, for some reason. In a 30-minute game I have had an opponent make one move, then wait 29 minutes before making his second move, and finally play the rest of the game bullet style. Of course I easily defeated him; I also blocked & reported him immediately thereafter. 😉 If you aren’t going to play on, then you owe it to your opponent to resign so he can play with someone else, who actually wants to play chess. If you really were thinking, or your connection dropped, then you shouldn’t be affected by the ban. As № 20 observed, this needs to be habitual behavior. And in the OP’s case, it clearly is, since he’s been deliberately stalling in games for at least a year now.
The only “idiotic complaint” is therefore his. It is hypocritical to complain about being timed out for wasting time: if you really believe it’s your right not to move, then the site where you play has the right not to give you a game. 😛 That is only fair, and poetic justice. (“You banned me for not moving!” “Exactly.” “It’s my right not to move!” “And it’s our right to ban you.” 🤷) What goes around comes around. You weren’t going to play anyway, so what are you complaining about? Enjoy waiting until you can not-play again. See what it feels like to wait for no good reason. (Except that, in this case, there are actually two good reasons: [1] to discourage such behavior in the future, and [2] to spare other players in the meantime.) What’s sad is that in the past year, jugji has still not learned either common sense or common decency. I grow weary of his unrepentant attitude, and I hope he will be shadowbanned soon as well, to spare the rest of us having to hear him. My sincere advice to him is: Get a clue, or get lost.
PS: If you still disagree for some reason, then I encourage you to play a game with the OP. Maybe you’re a time waster too? Perhaps, if you both waste each other’s time in the same game, you will see how boring that game was, and finally understand why the rest of us want to avoid “playing” with people like you. 🙂
