I was not going to post on this subject since Fencer has made his decision, and if he does not want it - then it is his site to run, so he does not need to put it in.

But I want keep reading post like ughaibu who thinks that the auto pass would only save 3-4 seconds, and other stuff - so let me first examplain how an auto-pass option would help, and then some reasons why it would be good. (Again, sorry Fencer - I know this has all been said before, but I know that some users were not around to read this before.)

How it will help. Well take this current example of a game. Lets say that each person takes 2 days to make a move.

Jan 1 - Player A moves

Jan 3 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 5 - Player A moves

Jan 7 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 9 - Player A moves

Jan 11 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 13 - Player A moves

Jan 15 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 17 - Player A moves

Jan 19 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 21 - Player A moves

Jan 23 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 25 - Player A moves

Jan 27 - Player B has no moves, passes

Jan 29 - Player A moves

Jan 31 - Player B has no moves, passes

Feb 2 - Player A moves

Feb 4 - Player B Now has a move, and finaly gets to play.

Now lets take the same game example, and show how it would work with auto-pass:

Jan 1 - Player A moves, submits, Player B can not make a move so it allows Player A to make another move. Submits again, Player B can not make a move again, so it allows Player A to make another move. (and so on and so on until Player B is able to move)

Jan 3 - Player B looks at the game, see's a message that says "You had no moves available. CLICK HERE to jump ahead to your current move, or you can click "next" to go through move by move to see what your opponenet has done"

So for the above example, a month was saved in a game - I have seen some games which go MANY months of passing.

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Reasons why it would be good:

1) THIS IS A GAME SITE! Persoanaly, I come here to play games. Me sitting for a month and hitting "Pass" is NOT PLAYING. I've even seen some people just resign because they wanted to play a game, not sit and hit pass for months.

2) Plus other minor issues like it will speed up the time it takes to complete a game, complete a tournament, etc.... but for me, the #1 issues is MY main issue why I would like to see it.

AGAIN - Sorry Fencer to talk more about this subject. :-)