Can someone please explain what has just happened to me!! Ok i was playing a rematch game of live chess after winning the first game. All was going wonderfully. It was a pretty tight game when i relized i was about 2 minutes lower in time than my opponent so I started playing very quickly and got it to the point where i was 30 seconds ahead of them. we both figure out we arent going to be able to mate in time since we are both under 30 seconds so we start just moving as quick as possible. ok heres where i get screwed!! my opponent reaches 0.00 when i have about 5 seconds left. I am victorious!! All of a sudden my time starts running and he has time on his clock????? my time runs out and i lose the game.
someone here in the land of chess.com please help me out here!
thank you
Lag. The system took a while to recognize the move, but immediately realized that a move had been made.
Well im definetly no live chess expert, however there is a setting that the time delay the player has left goes to his time, so perhaps it saved him and he moved and then it was your turn. OR live chess is glitchy and frustrating. =P
they get time back for lag really annoying i know
when the earth shutters on it's axis (barely perceptible on the surface)
the chess.com time clock (aligned to the soltist) puts time in its correct
phase alignment. I know this because I am quantum psychic.
It happens when your opponent has a sh*tload of lag... happens to me all the time. I was playing someone, and suddenly he stopped moving. At least, that's what I thought, cause after he made his move 1 minute and 20 seconds were added to his clock. It's highly annoying yes... can be beneficial though in a 1 min game, you get to think some.
bug on chess.com again
no, not a bug. however, we will be releasing a better system soon that helps everyone understand lag.
yet another fault in live chess
It's not a fault of live chess, its a problem inherent with the internet. People live far apart, and not everyone in the world has an uber-fast connection. It takes time for information to travel from a crappy connection on one side of the world all the way to the chess.com servers, and then to your computer. (actually i don't know if there are dedicated servers for live chess, but the same theory would apply if one of the players is hosting). It's just like in any video game played over the internet, latency happens. Keep posting about how it's chess.com's fault though that you or your opponent has a crappy connection.
/end rant over ignorance.
The game isn't over til the white board comes up declaring the result....
Be ready to make a move until it appears.....
The fact that Searching4Bobby timed out when he wasn't supposed to has nothing to do with the entanglement of the Earth with the moon, planets, and the Sun.
call the police!!!
No, this is meant for the FBI.
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