Aborting Games

So up until now I’ve only seen people abort games @ the beginning, I aways assumed it was a connection issue or something.

But then I saw it was an option where you can get out of a game without losing ranking, and I figured “ok so this is for huge mismatches, you get a high ranked player accidentally and you have a get out of jail free card before you even play.”

But just now I had someone abort a blitz game with only 36 seconds left on their clock. It was a king/pawn endgame where I had 2 pawns and they had none, but I only had 12 seconds so there was a good shot I would lose anyway.

So they aborted it, now it’s not in my completed games… which makes sense, but something about being able to just abandon a game right at the buzzer just feels like an encouragement of bad sportsmanship.

Am I in the wrong here? How do you use the abort function?

ive had two people abort at the end of the game ....both at a spot i probally had the advantage and they were given the game like they won.....in other words if you abort at end of game you win even if you are losing...ive had no responce from chess.com

 

I don't like this treat

 

There was a live server restart. When that happens, all ongoing games are aborted. The other possiblity is it was an arena game and it ended, which also aborts ongoing games.

 

ah okay thank you, I didn't realize!

Good to know

Isn't it surprising that I didn't get a mismatch at all, a guy was 9 points higher rated than me and he aborted a losing endgame while he only had 9 points higher elo than me? That isn't a mismatch. There were no server restarts, he just aborted, I was not in an arena, what is this chess.com?

There was a live server restart. When that happens all ongoing games are aborted.