arenas
Im sure everyone knows this. But chess.com realllly needs to do something about the arenas. Every one ive joined its almost impossible to keep up with the sandbaggers who drop their elo to under 500 and stomp out people who dont even know how to llay chess, meanwhile im either playing very tough competition i some cases which is fine, or im playing some 1000 elo point below me whos stretchibg the game out to 50 or 60 moves.... I call cheating on that. Or if im playing say a 1600 elo person whos goof enoigh to make it a conpetitive gane and i end up with a winning posistion or a mate in 2 or something and they realize this. They just decide to run their clock down which as in my most recent arenas case was a 10 min rapid arena. They will run the entire 4 or 5 mins down off their clock just to be sore losers. I dont know what they coukd do about that other than naybe make a 2 min move clock or something. 20% of the total game clock seems reasonable to make a single move, although if their were 6 mins left theyd still be able to run their clock down by playing 1 move every 119 seconds. But they really need to make muktiple arenas at once. Say theres a 10 min rapid arena. They can just list it anf when you join your split into categories based on your elo. Like 1000 and under. 1000-1500 and then 1500+ maybe? That or they need to be banning these people sandbagging and cheating during the arenas in real time because they are ridiculous. I ended up going 6-0 in my last try at an arena but my first 2 games were extremely difficult. Then i ran into someone who was 1000 elo point below me and played better than the 1900 i squeaked a win out of. And then the guy running down 5 mins off his clock because he was a sore loser. So by the time i finished the 6th game i was 6-0 and back in like 19th place. Meanwhile number 1 was a 500 elo player who had already won 11 games. Number 2 was a 400 elo player. And 3 was a 1600. Probably the onky legit player in the top 3 so i just gave up at that point. But something really needs to be done because these arenas are a joke.
