Dodge-Vacation

Club created to dodge chess.com's unfair "vacation" feature.

Playing vote chess in a solo club offers a loophole.

Otherwise, chess.com forces daily players and all tournament participants involved to accept up to 90 days "vacation" by opponents who can be seen online blitzing away...

The feature violates rules of chess, FIDE rules, as well as principles of fair play and sportsmanship.

"Vacation" (or Time-out Protection) is programmed by chess.com to kick in whenever premium members time out in a daily game.

So when you face this irritation, it is chess.com who is trolling you, your opponent may well have forgotten about the game entirely.

Members are misled by chess.com to believe they will have to wait only the set number of days per move, and are not informed that the opponent's move may be delayed by up to 3 months.

Playing vote chess as a one-man team avoids this perverse chess.com feature.

The only alternative is to scroll through tournament lists, looking for "No Vacation" tournaments. There is no alternative for individual daily games.

This blatantly unfair and frustrating feature should have been scrapped many years ago. Instead, chess.com insists on trolling its own members in pursuit of some vague commercial advantage.

Guess what? Whenever chess.com staff members (like Sam Copeland, Daniel Rensch, Mike Klein, etc.) enter a daily tournament, they make sure there is No Vacation. So no irritation, no 3-month waiting period for them!

Same hypocrisy in 2022:

https://www.chess.com/tournament/2022-chess-com-daily-chess-championship

In 2023, ditto!

https://www.chess.com/tournament/2023-chess-com-daily-chess-championship

Silenced for speaking up about such underhand methods.

Thanks, but no thanks! Managing without your "Help and Support":

@postafi

Previous solo club disabled by chess.com staff under false pretenses.

(Club owner arbitrarily muted by chess.com for years. Little chance of interaction therefore. Your kind interest is appreciated nonetheless.)