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PeterGreen2

How is it possible for someone with 17 hours left.To  go on vacation and upon  their return to now have 39 hours  in the Time Left column?

TadDude
PeterGreen2 wrote:

How is it possible for someone with 17 hours left.To  go on vacation and upon  their return to now have 39 hours  in the Time Left column?


From this post,  http://www.chess.com/forum/view/suggestions/new-auto-vacation-rule,  it appears time is added. It seems to go against the premise of penalising players who overburden themselves.

"This is to prevent "vacation" time being used to just manage an over-loaded games list. - but removal of 24 hours from vacation time, in turn adds 24 hours onto the game clock, hence the time difference. One day is still lost from vacation time though."