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eulers_knot

I just experienced a loss due to my allegedly Abandoning a game.  The game is here:

https://www.chess.com/live#g=2389990600.

My next move was to be Bh4#.  However I lost connection, (specifically, my computer restarted for reasons unknown).  When this happened, I immediately went to another machine and logged into chess.com but it was too late: chess.com forced resignation.  I was in a clearly winning position, and I had more time on the clock than my opponent.

 

It seems like the time limit for abandoned games is too tight.  I understand that chess.com implements these policies to deal with game abandonment.  Game abandonment is a rampant problem here.  But it seems like the time threshold should be lengthened to allow someone who was disconnected to get back in.  Another idea might be for chess.com to utilize its own computer analysis to determine the likelihood that the game was abandoned. If someone is in a winning position, they are less likely to abandon, I think...

Thoughts?

Flank_Attacks

.. It would appear, that before the 'admin' here, addresses, your complaint ; It will definitely, require, many more, similar, misgivings ; Than, your one, isolated example !

 

Anyway ; The chances are, that, as time goes on ; You'll manage, to counter-balance that, in 'winning' a game{s} ;You should've lost ! -- Also, becoming, pre-occupied, with how 'high' your 'online-rating' is ; Versus, what, it could've been, in ideal circumstances ; Misses, the point ; In what this experience, is All about !

 

It's probably, Not all that different, than 'referees'; Collectively making, one or 2, 'blown calls'. - Normally, the 'cream' will 'rise' to-the-top ; Despite, such anomalies. o:

eulers_knot

Thanks for your response.

I didn't say anything about my online rating! My point was not about my rating, or the rating points I lost because of the loss. My point was to identify a weakness of the present system, and I suggested a way to fine tune the system implemented by chess.com to be a little more forgiving when it is unlikely that the game was abandoned.

Even if I was losing, I still would have tried to get back to the game, and failed to do so, though my suggestion of looking at computer analysis would do nothing to solve that.

I doubt my experience is isolated.

Another idea is to increase the "abandoned game" time threshold for those who don't regularly abandon games, and perhaps decrease it for those who do.

macer75
Flank_Attacks wrote:

.. It would appear, that before the 'admin' here, addresses, your complaint ; It will definitely, require, many more, similar, misgivings ; Than, your one, isolated example !

 

Anyway ; The chances are, that, as time goes on ; You'll manage, to counter-balance that, in 'winning' a game{s} ;You should've lost ! -- Also, becoming, pre-occupied, with how 'high' your 'online-rating' is ; Versus, what, it could've been, in ideal circumstances ; Misses, the point ; In what this experience, is All about !

 

It's probably, Not all that different, than 'referees'; Collectively making, one or 2, 'blown calls'. - Normally, the 'cream' will 'rise' to-the-top ; Despite, such anomalies. o:

That, is, a, great, way, to 'put,' it! Really; 'I' <couldn't> have, said, it, better, myself! *vv)*^

IMKeto
eulers_knot wrote:

I just experienced a loss due to my allegedly Abandoning a game.  The game is here:

https://www.chess.com/live#g=2389990600.

My next move was to be Bh4#.  However I lost connection, (specifically, my computer restarted for reasons unknown).  When this happened, I immediately went to another machine and logged into chess.com but it was too late: chess.com forced resignation.  I was in a clearly winning position, and I had more time on the clock than my opponent.

 

It seems like the time limit for abandoned games is too tight.  I understand that chess.com implements these policies to deal with game abandonment.  Game abandonment is a rampant problem here.  But it seems like the time threshold should be lengthened to allow someone who was disconnected to get back in.  Another idea might be for chess.com to utilize its own computer analysis to determine the likelihood that the game was abandoned. If someone is in a winning position, they are less likely to abandon, I think...

Thoughts?

That is one of the drawbacks to playing chess online.  And im not singling you out, but, have you ever notice no one complains about a win due to a bad connection :-)

eulers_knot
FishEyedFools wrote:
eulers_knot wrote:

I just experienced a loss due to my allegedly Abandoning a game.  The game is here:

https://www.chess.com/live#g=2389990600.

My next move was to be Bh4#.  However I lost connection, (specifically, my computer restarted for reasons unknown).  When this happened, I immediately went to another machine and logged into chess.com but it was too late: chess.com forced resignation.  I was in a clearly winning position, and I had more time on the clock than my opponent.

 

It seems like the time limit for abandoned games is too tight.  I understand that chess.com implements these policies to deal with game abandonment.  Game abandonment is a rampant problem here.  But it seems like the time threshold should be lengthened to allow someone who was disconnected to get back in.  Another idea might be for chess.com to utilize its own computer analysis to determine the likelihood that the game was abandoned. If someone is in a winning position, they are less likely to abandon, I think...

Thoughts?

That is one of the drawbacks to playing chess online.  And im not singling you out, but, have you ever notice no one complains about a win due to a bad connection :-)

Agreed.  But I am presenting an idea of how to *improve* online chess.  So far there's been no comment on that.