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Wolfordwv1968

Has anyone had this happen before?

Let's say you just made a fairly devastating move. Not a killer blow ; but still very significant.

Immediately your opponent disconnects or seemingly abandons the game.

Not always but often they leave game play and then log right back on as if they are having connection issues.

While they do this back & forth dance between re-establishing connection and leaving again it seems to many time to cause me to lose connection to the game.

This situation goes from me being in a winning position to me losing cause it ends up looking as if I am the one who abandoned the game.

To me ; I think there should be safe guards in place to keep a person in a winning position from losing like this. I mean why does anyone logically abandon a game they are winning?

Martin_Stahl
Wolfordwv1968 wrote:

Has anyone had this happen before?

Let's say you just made a fairly devastating move. Not a killer blow ; but still very significant.

Immediately your opponent disconnects or seemingly abandons the game.

Not always but often they leave game play and then log right back on as if they are having connection issues.

While they do this back & forth dance between re-establishing connection and leaving again it seems to many time to cause me to lose connection to the game.

This situation goes from me being in a winning position to me losing cause it ends up looking as if I am the one who abandoned the game.

To me ; I think there should be safe guards in place to keep a person in a winning position from losing like this. I mean why does anyone logically abandon a game they are winning?

Your opponent can't impact your connection, so what looks like your opponent having connection issues is likely a connection issue on your end .

Some things to look at to minimize issues.

https://support.chess.com/article/4720-online-chess-performance-optimizations

https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

Tribbled

There is an option for reporting someone for timewasting or abandoning games (as well as the system for auto-detecting such behaviour) But I would give people the benefit of the doubt in the kinds of situation the OP describes. Connection issues genuinely happen, frequently. And if a connection problem was going to start happening at some random point in a game, it's more likely to happen after a key move because those points in a game are using more of the clock. And of course we are all guilty of selection bias at one time or another eg less likely to notice a game with connection issues happening at a routine part of the game.

Wolfordwv1968

Well I'm curious about something else. I have always logged in through facebook since i first started the account.

Its common knowledge how facebook accounts are hacked. do you think that hackers could find their way through to the chess site via my current way of logging in through facebook?

I just feel like there is a bug causing my woes

Clockwork_Nemesis
I’ve had an account for 12 years and that has never happened to me
Wolfordwv1968

Ok cool. I was just curious. Thank you for being cool enough to just give a simple answer without unnecessary chastening or banter. I very much appreciate it.

Wolfordwv1968

I did a ping test as support recommended. Results said 25ms. What does that mean?