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

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.