A number of players spitefully run their clock down when completely lost, often in Arena tournaments when you want to get on with the next game. While they are buring may be a minute or two, I'll make a sarcastic reply in the chat. For example, "I'm off for a coffee, Must see movie now streaming. Things like this, but nothing malicious or spiteful. I think the worse thing I have ever said on any chess format is, "this is embarassing," when a decent opponent plays on 2 queens down just to burn your time in an Arena tournament to spite you. I would like to see some better etiquette from these decent chess players, and not get a warning from Lichess about verbal abuse, which insinuates that I've done something really, really bad, which is not the case. While playing on one well known chess forum one opponent after losing said, "I hope you die of cancer." Now that's verbal abuse!
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