What is flagging? and is it poor form?

@ungewichtet said in #10:

@SOJB
I find it sometimes hard in time trouble to see if a move was played at all or not. So your small pawn step on the unimportant wing falls into the category 'hard to detect'. A true silent move to cap off the game. Good fun and nothing about TOS at all.
Oh right sorry yes it felt funny when I did it. When the clock ran out sorry for mis understanding xxx

@dnowmects said in #9:

If flagging was wrong we wouldn't use clocks, we'd all play Correspondence all the time.
The best feeling in the world is winning on time against an opponent who deliberately threw away their time.
Well he did try to blitz me , a lower rated opponent, so ok xxx

All's fair in love and chess xxx lol

nice I have done that to a 2150. lol

@SOJB said in #5:

So flagging is forcing them out of time , ok , and that's legit then , ok .

"I flagged" - I ran out of time
"I flagged him" - I caused him to run out of time
"I got flagged" - He made me run out of time
"I dirty-flagged him" - I caused him to run out of time even though he had an overwhelming advantage on the board

@mcgoves said in #15:

"I flagged" - I ran out of time
"I flagged him" - I caused him to run out of time
"I got flagged" - He made me run out of time
"I dirty-flagged him" - I caused him to run out of time even though he had an overwhelming advantage on the board
Thanks for explanation

Dirty-flagging is arguably unsportsmanlike (hence 'dirty'). But it happens so much no one will bat an eyelash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsmXbQfSqeQ

Oh little flag on the old chess clocks , just got it , der I'm so slow xxx

In our league, you can claim a win if the opponent is more than 15 minutes late. In one case my opponent wanted to start the match late.. I said No...

A win is a win. You broke no rules.

Never feel sorry for your opponent if they’ve left you sat there wasting your time.

@mcgoves said in #17:

Dirty-flagging is arguably unsportsmanlike

No such thing as dirty flagging. Win is a win. I opponent mismanages his/lher time that is not my problem. I've seen master level players in speed chess tournament to do it. Clock management in blitz is less important skill than finding good moves.