Hmm. There are various things that can trigger abandonment.
Right at the start, there is a timer for how long you take to make the first move.
First move timer
When a new game starts, you have a certain amount of time to make your first move, or the game is considered to be abandoned. If you don’t make your first move in 5 seconds, a timer will appear. How much time you have depends on the time controls of the game:
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Bullet: 10 seconds to make a move
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Blitz: 15 seconds
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Rapid: 55 seconds
If you don’t make a move when the timer runs out, the game will be counted as a loss for you by abandonment.
After the first move but before you reach 10 moves, there is another formula.
Long move timer
The last, and little known way to time out is if you are still
connected, but take a very long time to make one move.
This can only happen before 10 moves are made in the game. After 10 moves, you can use as much time as you like on any move, but before ten moves are made if you use more than 50% of the main time on one move, you will be considered to have abandoned the game.
rapid 10m: new player, but i just ran into someone that somehow allowed thier timer to run from ~9m to 0m without moving or being flagged as abandoning the game. is this normal? i eventually won through abandonment but my timer is ~1min before i get that flag... what, why, how, why tf do i have to wait 10m for my oponent when i get kicked if i dont move within 1-2m?