frozen time in blitz

Hello

I am getting a little fed up with having won a game on time only to see my oponents time cease to decay when it is their move with only a few seconds left on their clock. What is going on? Are they cheating somehow? I cant use this web site for much longer if this continues to happen as it is spoiling my day. 

If your opponents are choosing to time out instead of resigning when they have a losing position, that's too bad, you can block them and never have to play against them again. If they have only a few seconds left on their clock like you've mentioned, then it shouldn't be much of a problem, no?

I have them beat on time but somehow they seem to be able to keep giving themselves a couple more seconds. Their time does not decay when mine does.

There is a long pause while it my oponents turn and neither time decays, then, miraculously, they have more time. just a second, but this keeps happening until my time decays. What is this, some sort of hacking cheat?

How are you beating them on time if their time doesn't decay while yours does? Are you familiar with time increments?

I'm not exactly sure about this, but it seems what you've seen is just the server adjusting each players' time, according to the lags. You can be sure no one is hacking or cheating through that.

The time displayed on your computer screen isn't the "exact" time.  There's a bit of lag between what your screen shows and what the server actually keeps.  If you watch during a game, you will occasionally see time freeze or "run backwards" a little bit on lots of different moves, but you aren't likely to notice it.  When there is just 3 seconds left in a game, though, it becomes more apparent.

     I once made a checkmate move when my screen showed I had 0.1 seconds left, and the result the server registered was that I had lost on time.  Very frustrating.  It was even weirder because when I went to "view" the game on my live chess screen, the winning move had been recorded, and was right there displayed, showing the white king in checkmate, but showing a win for white.

The way I see it, the internet allows me to play chess against people from all over the world.  I guess I can live with it if the clock isn't accurate to 1/10 of a second at all times.

Hey, I have seen the same thing, you just didn't articulate it properly. There is some sort of cheat or delay that some people use. For example: I had someone beat in a close game by 20 seconds. As their time was winding down to zero, they suddenly signed out, or the "player has disconnected" appears in the chat menu." All of the sudden an additional 15  seconds pops on their screen. As my time now is neck a neck with theirs or 2 or three seconds behind. The guy I was playing was an Indian guy, and he laughed afterword. "hehehe" There is definitely a hack or some sort of trick or delay you can put on the clock, I've seen it too many times.