I don't get how thats manipulation. If my opponent kept on disconnecting I would just let him/her waste some time. From reading the first comment it just seems that you weren't manipulated it just seems you really liked your oponents profile picture and lost concentration because of that which lead you to lose. In other words you were distracted by the opponents profile pic rather than being manipulated.
I think this was a funny/interesting way to troll during live chess
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I don't think this user even had a pic. My eye caught the motion on the screen. I'm not talking about them disconnecting from the game. The board was apparently still connected and the clock kept running. But in the chat window (which is for social communication) it said they had disconnected FROM CHAT! That is what I'm talking about.
All that happened was:
I was playing the game, I got an advantage, and the other player disconnected from chat.
The other player gained back some advantage, and turned the chat back on.
I won some material, and the other player disconnected from chat again.
I felt bad cause I am a friendly nice person and I liked the other player's flag or profile picture or whatever and I wanted to chat, so I lost my concentration, and the other player won!
I forgot all about it until today, which is probably about two or three weeks after the game (I have been very busy), and suddenly it came back to mind.
It's such a subtle way to manipulate another person.
I'm somewhat amazed at the elegance of this method, and its implications for the fundamental nature of interpersonal manipulation, that I would still remember it three weeks later.
There's some mystery about it. Is the player really strong, and just toying with me, to lose material and then win anyway on position and time? Seems like it to me.