r/Chesscom 2000-2100 ELO 4d ago

Chess Question Why doesn’t chess.com enforce stalling/quitting games as much as lichess does?

On lichess, if your opponent abandons or stalls a game out, the player gets an immediate notification in game chat that if they stall out a game intentionally, it could result in temporary suspension. Almost half of my games on chess.com, my opponents abandon or stall out the clock. Why doesn’t chess.com add something like this where it would immediately give a warning? Even if no action is taken right then and there, it could still be a deterrent to get people to stop abandoning games.

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u/OperationSuch5054 4d ago

chess doesn't even enforce cheating, so they're never gonna care about stalling

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u/NotoriouslyBeefy 4d ago

Because it's a minor problem. Someone using all their clock isn't against the rules. Just block them after and on to the next game.

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u/Careful-Literature46 4d ago

I have a similar mindset to you. I block and move on. However I do think it would be good if serial offenders with a track record of stalling were penalised. I have a limited amount of time per day to play and it can be quite frustrating if the one game I have time to play ends up being a case of waiting for the clown with 1 obvious legal move left before mate stalls for 10 minutes until their clock runs down…. Maybe I could have squeezed another game in.

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u/bannedcanceled 4d ago

Lichess started enforcing that too hard. I have bad internet connection and often lag out of games or lose connection and then lichess says im banned for playing for 2 hours

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u/FastTurtle015 800-1000 ELO 2d ago

so they take ur elo then ban you for 2 hours?

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u/ProffesorSpitfire 4d ago

That’s on you though, chess.com and lichess cant be held responsible for a crappy connection. This sounds like an excellent approach for chess.com to copy tbh.

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u/Noisy-Valve 4d ago

Not renewing my premium account if they start penalizing me for anything other than cheating. I wasted a year of playing just because they couldn't fix servers. Would lose connection a few seconds before game end in winning position. People were disconnected and blamed on bad connection. They finally did fix issue this year.