some people are degenerate sore losers and waste your and their own time when outskilled as a coping mechanism
Stalling in lost position.
They are hoping you will do something else and forget you are playing a game. Then, it is your clock that would have run out.
what's worse, them wasting your time, or you wasting your own time with this thread that is just you complaining?
what's worse, them wasting your time, or you wasting your own time with this thread that is just you complaining?
I agree, they are stalling and not replying to us!!!
It is bad sportsmanship and happens at lower levels. Once you get higher, there is more respect among players because say if your famous and do something bad, everyone's gonna know about it and you might be screwed. That is why at higher elo people are usually nicer (maybe not so chatty) but they don't stall. There is really nothing you can do if your opponents decides to stall. Chess.com has a feature that detects it but some players are evil and sit there with their devices open and wait to make you suffer.
I do not understand why people sit for a minute and let their time run out in a lost position. This seems to be occurring more often these days. Why not just resign and move on to the next game? It seems I encounter one person a day who engages in the behavior of stalling/ quitting game. What is the appeal of sitting in a lost position?