Poor sportsmenship

I recently played a game where insted of making the only move out of a check that would then lead to checkmate my oponent simply ran his clock down 20 min so he lost on time and not by checkmate. Its just plain rude. Any thoughts?

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The only thing you can do is put him on your blocked list.

I would hope this doesnt happen at higher rankings but maybe theres a need for a "are you really thinking button?" lol

The only thing you can do is put him on your blocked list - browni3141    AGREED

You're right, that was poor sportsmenship. Chess.com has a system for identifying such people. If they do that frequently, they will not be able to play live chess with anyone except people on their friends list.

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/171/0/fair-play-policy

+1

This has happened to me a lot too.  That and immediately disconnecting after dropping a piece, re-connecting and not resuming, etc = immediate no-play list.

I agree with nofxmisfit. It is annoying and rude. 

No doubt that is bad sportsmanship - but don't worry, just play on chess.com long enough and you won't even notice anymore!  :-)

   Seriously though, there are a lot of people here who are good sports (or at least not bad sports) - in my experience, the bad ones are the exception.

sorry to hear that ,maybe chess.com could nail him if he does that too often..l8ter

lol

drop a note on  his profile,so  that everyone can see comments about him!:)

 IDIOT player

i also think that if you agree to play a game you should play more than one move before leaving I have an opponent doing that and consequently the game is dragging on.....so much so I sent the person a message saying play or resign!

I agree this is aweful. I have had it happen to me many times on yahoo. In fact they used to close the browser window for that room and go play some where else. The thing that sucks most is if you don't pay attention and think you have it won on time they might sneak back and move and you won't be paying attention and then they get a cheap victory. I wish they had a button that allowed you to just ban them for it.

I've found that I used to encounter much more bad sportsmanship when my rating was similar to the OP's. Now that I'm a few hundred points higher in live chess (still only about 1500), I only very rarely come accross childish behavior like the OP mentions. Most people are polite (or silent) whether they win or lose.

I wonder if anyone else has found the same tendency?

I think it is this way for several reasons. One reason is that more experienced players tend to respect the game more. Another reason could be that many lower rateds actually are children. You'll still come across bad behaviour at all levels unfortunately. Even GMs act without respect for the game or their opponents sometimes.

Chess ain't scrabble?!

Shit! no wonder I lose all the time.

I agree that letting the clock run out is poor sportsmanship and i dont appreciate it when opponents just waste my time instead of moving or resigning- becasue they made a poor move- this seems to happen about 10% of time, but im playing around 1000-

i do wonder what effect blocking has becasue twice in the past week after my opponent made a poor move and just let the clock run- 9-10 min (thank you..) ive blocked them, left a polite note thanking them for wasting my time and then when seeking another game the same player came up! so i wonder if blocking is only for messages or does should it inclued games as well( as i always thought it would?)

any thoughts or help? 

litterally playing 1 move every day is taking the rise..

That's perfectly normal, unless we're talking about live chess. I think you're opponent would've timed out in that case.