It would be nice in live chess if you could move your mouse over someones name, and you could see the percentage of abandoned games they have (like "350 games 33% abandoned). This way you could avoid the few players who abandon their games constantly, and it might even discourage them from doing so if their abandoned stats were publicly shown.

I think that's a nice one.

Yes, we are going to implement something like this. Thanks!

This seems to happen quite often in online chess-- though I suppose if your computer crashes you might lose on time. There must be some instances when it is  not the players fault --ie an emergency arises and  a game of chess has to go on the back burner.

There are time when we have to disconnect for a good reason, but we're not talking about that. We are talking about chronic abusers who would have a very high percentage of disconnect/abandoned games. If a person let's say has an abandoned rate of 20%, that mean 2 out of every 10 games he abandons them. I think 20% or under is reasonable. But if a person has a 40% abandoned rate, then there is something wrong there and that person might be one to be avoided playing. Most of us get disconnected unexpectedly on a regular basis, but most of us have been able to reconnect now (thanks Erik) and finish out games. So for most of us the abandoned rate is going to be fairly low.

I think it's a little unfair.

I hardly play live chess, because my connection doesn't hold up. I get many disconnects. My percentage would be very high. But every now and again, I try a few games to see if there's an improvement. I NEVER intentionally disconnect, and this stat would reflect badly on me, and not for anything I've done wrong.

I have over 1800 completed online games, without a single time-out. That should tell you something.

It's not the disconnects that annoy us, everyone gets disconnected, but most of us can reconnect within a reasonable time to get back in the game. It's the totally large amounts of abandoned games that would keep me from playing certain players. We all have a lot of disconnects, but not a lot of abandoned games.

Yes, letting us know abandoned-games percentages is a good idea, as long as the percentage does not count server disconnects, as rooperi says above. 

I'm regularly disconnected by the server, maybe because I have a bad connection, but I certainly don't want to have those incidents count against me. 

In addition, I've lost at least two games because of a disconnect that never successfully reconnected.  I think I've won a few games that way too (when the disconnect happens on the other end).

In any case, Live Chess needs an interface that is more bulletproof.  I'm just about ready to give up on Live Chess until my server disconnects drop to a reasonable level.

Amy 

Unfortunately discos are here to stay and have been since the 70s.

I'm not sure what clock issues you're referring to though -- there are clock corrcections that make it look like something odd is happening but they are legetimate adjustments.

People might have unreliable ISPs so this might be an unfair mark against their name. 

Better would be to mark abondoned games in winning over losing positions.  As a percentage or ratio, I believe that would be more accurate.

The clock corrections are for lag as a result of network latency and are perfectly legitimate.  I explained it earlier today in some detail here:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/live-chess----latency?lc=1#last_comment

And I meant this kind of discos:

If you hardly play live chess, you wouldn't have that many disconnects.  Perhaps you could stick to 1-3 days per move until you find a more reliable internet connection.  Plus, if you don't have that great of a signal, could the reason be because you leech off somebody elses router?  Just curious.

I mean, what's the point of this, anyway? If you meet someone who likes to delay the game and abandon it, all you have to do is to let the seconds tick and then celebrate the victory.

Maybe you wouldn't feel the correct kind of victory. But what your opponent does is his or her problem. The thing is that you have just won your game, so just be happy and get on with life.

Shhh....

Don't you know that anyone who doesn't blindly agree with these things is a troll?