Aborted game & chess challanges

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Lately I have been getting the message after issusing a challange "game aborted by server". Does that mean the opponent aborted the game or the server had a software gliche that caused the game to be aborted.  Also, I am the one always issueing a challange unless I get a request for a rematch after a game.  What do I need to do to recieve a challange?  Thanks  Bob NYC

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Empathy1 wrote:

Lately I have been getting the message after issusing a challange "game aborted by server". Does that mean the opponent aborted the game or the server had a software gliche that caused the game to be aborted.  Also, I am the one always issueing a challange unless I get a request for a rematch after a game.  What do I need to do to recieve a challange?  Thanks  Bob NYC

There's no surefire way to recieve a challenge, but always be nice an dcourteous, it may help. As for the server thing, from my experience a person justs waits for a while after the game is set up. This is probably because they see your rating and think they can't win, but they don't want to press abort because then it will say that theyaborted. Instead, they just wait 15 seconds or so and the server thinks that they have left, so it aborts. I'm not completely sure, but it seems like it could be correct. Hopefully this helped.

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Makes complete sense. Thanks Vanman

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The server aborts if it's the first move and the player hasn't made a move for 20 seconds or so.