Warning. Letting time run out instead of resigning will result in a temporary ban.

@sheckley666 said in #10:

This is basically, how real life courts work. The algorithm is buried in the minds of jurors and judges and nobody knows it.
This is incorrect on a number of levels... But now I understand your viewpoint, I disagree with it on a fundamental level, but I get it.

@luchachess said in #11:

This is incorrect on a number of levels...

Then say how it is incorrect, please. Also, you are comparing being banned from Lichess for 10 minutes to being sent to prison for 100 years. Of course ideally neither case would produce false positives, but false positives are much less serious in the first situation.

The alternative to having an algorithm (which works very well mind you), is to let stallers and sandbaggers run free and rampant on this site. Is that what you want? Perhaps it is, if you are a staller and/or sandbagger yourself.

@AsDaGo said in #12:

Then say how it is incorrect, please. Also, you are comparing being banned from Lichess for 10 minutes to being sent to prison for 100 years. Of course ideally neither case would produce false positives, but false positives are much less serious in the first situation.
I dont neet to. I only argue if i am getting paid. And yes now i am just trolling you.

@AsDaGo said in #13:

The alternative to having an algorithm (which works very well mind you), is to let stallers and sandbaggers run free and rampant on this site. Is that what you want? Perhaps it is, if you are a staller and/or sandbagger yourself.
If you dont want to wait five minutes then dont play five minute chess is a very simple thing when you think about it. Playing five minute chess and then whining about having to wait five minutes seems weird to me.

@luchachess said in #14:

And yes now i am just trolling you.

Well ok, thanks for letting me know I guess.

One player in my old chess club every time when he is loosing he would play until the mate, but also he played his last move before mate on seconds even in classical time control chess, and sometimes he spent 30 minutes for his last move before mate, also this was when we played blitz. He was other than this very correct player, and sometimes I went with him in some tournaments. He was also very humble guy, when I was a kid I played with him (especially blitz) countless time.
Only way to win against him before his last seconds was if he blundered mate in one.
I am not leaving in same city.
He was in some war and have some psychological problem.
Now-days he is again playing to mate, but he is not playing last move before mate in last seconds.
I was once or twice little bit angry at him, but sometimes his opponents want to bit him. I do not know why I wrote this here, but it can be funny. But maybe this guy who lets this happens maybe have some issue.

Sure, it would be hard to justify wasting 30 minutes when you obviously have two legal moves and both are replied with an easy checkmate. But in general, what may look like a "rage sitting" from opponent's point of view may be something completely different and may have nothing to do with spite or trying to "punish" the opponent.

For example, when I look at my longest thinking times, many of them are one of two situations: right after a blunder and right before resigning. And IMHO this makes perfect sense as these are situation which deserve deep analysis. First, calm down. Then check if there really isn't any trick that could still save the immediate problem, e.g. some smart in between move or counterattack. OK, it's official, I'm a pieced down... so what now? Do I have some compensation or counterplay? Do I have a way to make things messy and give my opponent some opportunities to go wrong? Some desperate "Hail Mary" attack before they can get the extra pieces into play? Or is it just trying to resist and getting slowly but inevitably crushed? Do I want that? And it's the same with resignation, I believe it's a big decision which deserves to be done with a calm head and after serious deliberation.

Of course, it would be better to spend more time before you blunder but that's kind of the point of a blunder: you don't receive an advance notice you are going to make one. :-)

@luchachess said in #15:

If you dont want to wait five minutes then dont play five minute chess is a very simple thing when you think about it. Playing five minute chess and then whining about having to wait five minutes seems weird to me.

do you want to play a 60:60 game with me i need the practice for a tournament coming up i might have to leave during it for 30min to go eat watch a tv show and a few quick errands and run out of time but thats fine you agreed to be there for 60 min

@for_cryingout_loud said in #19:

do you want to play a 60:60 game with me i need the practice for a tournament coming up i might have to leave during it for 30min to go eat watch a tv show and a few quick errands and run out of time but thats fine you agreed to be there for 60 min.

If we played I wouldnt dare tell you how to use your time, because it isnt my time.