auto-resign

i hate this auto-resign bocause pf bad connection

Do you think it is fair for you to expect players with good connections to wait around while you fix your connection?  How long should they wait? 1 minute? 5 minutes?  It costs you nothing other than a few rating points, which you can recover any time you get a better connection.

You have played almost 4,500 blitz games here since 2011. It seems like your rating has gradually declined over that entire period.   How much of the decline in your rating would you blame on the disconnection policy?

Nope!

How is that any different from someone in a losing position taking the full 3 (or whatever) days to make a move?

What I mean is how is it different from waiting on live chess as opposed to online chess.  Whether it's 3 days or 1 minute, it's still waiting, right?  Just do something, check back from time to time.

There are some websites that allow your opponents to immediately claim a win (or a draw if they have insufficient material) when you disconnect

What I found is that if you use Google Chrome with quite a few extensions, switching to incognito mode, which doesn't use any of your cache or your extensions, makes it faster! The only exception is if you are basic, you may have ads slow you down, but you can allow some extensions in incognito as well. Not sure how that may affect (I don't see ads), but you may as well try.

That doesn't answer my question.

does it mean that those of us in Africa where network problems are common should not enjoy online chess? pliz admin scrap this auto resign bullshit from this app.I've lost many games in a winning position.plzzzzz do something.

does it mean that those of us in Africa where network problems are common should not enjoy online chess? pliz admin scrap this auto resign bullshit from this app.I've lost many games in a winning position.plzzzzz do something.

does it mean that those of us in Africa where network problems are common should not enjoy online chess? pliz admin scrap this auto resign bullshit from this app.I've lost many games in a winning position.plzzzzz do something.

Auto-Resign is garbage and totally unfair. Even if someone is having connection problems, they usually get back on with time on their clock left. However, since some time has gone by, they "abandoned" the game, with time still left on their clock. Bullshit! No one abandoned anything. It's flipping cheating by chess.com in favor of the player who has a good connection!

We got enough damn cheaters on this site, we don't need chess.com helping them out in other ways.

Could someone explain what the "auto-resign" feature you're talking about here is?  I've not come across it, although in live chess I have played people from countries with sketchy internet and it's not their fault if the connection falters during games, so I hang in or if something comes up and I can't, I resign.  What I hate is people in live chess who have no connectivity problems during a 30 minute game but disconnect or intentionally let the clock run down when they're losing so they won't lose as many points as they would if they got mated.

It's a feature that they have to stop those who, out of spite, just let their clocks run down in a lost position. While I admit that to be annoying, it doesn't really play. Because, if the position was unclear or even, you would have to wait anyway, while they think. It is their time.

So what the boneheads at chess.com did was institute something like Auto-Resign, where after a minute or two, you're done, you just lose, and labeled as having "abandoned the game." That's just fine for those who actually abandoned the game. But those with connectivity issues, it's not acceptable. We didn't abandon anything. So we just lose because we have no connection. And almost 99% of the time, we connect in time, but not in time for their auto-resign feature to kick in.

And then people wonder why we're pissed off about it. It's unfair no matter how you look at it. There are some places in the world where internet connections are a real problem, mostly due to Governments fearful of their own people. And even though they can't stop VPN's, they know how to cause them a fair degree of trouble.

Thanks for the explanation.  It is unfair because if you choose a 30 minute game, for example, that's how long it should last.  And you're right about it unfairly punishing people who have connectivity issues.  IMHO it's a form of discrimination against people who are less advantaged, either because of the country or area where they live or because they don't have the economic means to afford high quality and reliable internet or, as you said, governments who are in control.  I'm wondering why my recent opponent who intentionally let the clock run down with more than 10 minutes of his time remaining when I had mate in two, something that doesn't happen to me very often.  Obvious when someone does this because he or she hasn't had any connectivity problems for the first, in this example, 20 minutes of the game.

Exactly LittleNell81.

If you agree to play a game with a certain time control, then both players should have the amount of time agreed on. There aren't any excuses. As a result, I stopped playing. What's the point? I mostly play daily or I just use the other features. It's not worth it otherwise, and because of this auto-resign feature, I refuse to pay and I never will unless it's gone.

sad autoresign is istill working u.u