Accidental Resignation in Daily Chess

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elmo12878

In analysis mode in daily chess the "resign" and "offer a draw" buttons are very close to the arrow buttons used to skip between previous positions. Due to this issue I accidentally clicked resign in a winning position a couple of times already, while quickly skipping through the game. 
It just happened again and I'm really pissed off about this... Has this happened to anyone else?

Alramech
elmo12878 wrote:

In analysis mode in daily chess the "resign" and "offer a draw" buttons are very close to the arrow buttons used to skip between previous positions. Due to this issue I accidentally clicked resign in a winning position a couple of times already, while quickly skipping through the game. 
It just happened again and I'm really pissed off about this... Has this happened to anyone else?

Make sure to toggle the "Confirm Resign" option:

 

Martin_Stahl
Alramech wrote:
elmo12878 wrote:

In analysis mode in daily chess the "resign" and "offer a draw" buttons are very close to the arrow buttons used to skip between previous positions. Due to this issue I accidentally clicked resign in a winning position a couple of times already, while quickly skipping through the game. 
It just happened again and I'm really pissed off about this... Has this happened to anyone else?

Make sure to toggle the "Confirm Resign" option:

 

 

 

Does that work in Daily? I think it may only impact Live.

elmo12878

Thanks for your reply! Even though I have this activated it happens to me when I'm skipping through the game very quickly. When clicking quickly a couple times in a row it can happen that you also click on "yes" before even noticing you clicked "resign" in the first place...

elmo12878

The "confirm resign" option is activated by default in daily.

Strangemover

This has happened to me once, although I was in a losing position. I would have preferred to fight on a little while though. I have many times hit the resign and offer draw options in analysis but have been able to cancel instead of accidentally confirming. I agree with the OP they are too close to the move arrows and it would be preferable if these options simply weren't there when you are in analysis - when I have finished analysing and returned to the game board I will then decide if I want to resign or offer a draw. It's too easy to misclick.

elmo12878
Strangemover wrote:

This has happened to me once, although I was in a losing position. I would have preferred to fight on a little while though. I have many times hit the resign and offer draw options in analysis but have been able to cancel instead of accidentally confirming. I agree with the OP they are too close to the move arrows and it would be preferable if these options simply weren't there when you are in analysis - when I have finished analysing and returned to the game board I will then decide if I want to resign or offer a draw. It's too easy to misclick.

 

I agree it would be a good idea if the resign and offer a draw buttons were disabled in analysis mode because you have to leave analysis mode anyways if you want to make a move so it makes no sense that they are even there in analysis mode... analysis mode should be for analysis only, "make a move" mode for sending your moves...

 

QueensGambitDude123

Is it possible to unresign?

Martin_Stahl
ChristmasBoy922 wrote:

Is it possible to unresign?

 

No. When you resign, the game is over. Support might be able to reinstate a game, of your opponent agrees to it.

jonmell

Urgh just happened to me too (analysis put my position at +1.85). Was a really interesting midgame position and accidentally resigned while clicking through positions. Wish chess.com would get rid of resign buttons from the analysis tab. The whole point is that you're trying things out, why would you have a suicide button there? It's just poor UI design. 

Here's the game:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/352562327

07062011r

hi

 

tcferg

I've had the same mishap.  It happened so fast it shocked me when I thought I was just clicking back through moves. I asked chess.com to consider taking the resign and draw buttons off the analysis screen (they shouldn't be available in that mode), or to at least pop up a dialog where the confirm button is in the middle of the screen instead of right on top of the first button - that would avoid accidentally confirming when just scrolling back through moves.  No response from chess.com.

tcferg
Louutah16 wrote:
Ah, cupcake I feel so bad for you.

Thanks for your sentiment, but I'm not asking anyone to feel bad about it.  I'm just asking chess.com to consider a UI improvement.  

The-M00se

frick, just did that with a 2000 bot in a winning position :'(

samuelschoenberg

I just did this in a daily game shortly after the opening

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/358801687

It really sucks because it's the first daily game I've lost so far, and I put more effort into these games than I do into blitz.

For anyone who makes this mistake the first time, I think they would be in the right to blame the UI for the mistake.  I've detailed the reasons here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/remove-resign-buttons-from-the-analyze-tab-in-daily-chess

ProtonDrum

This just happened to me too unfortunately, in a tournament game that was mostly equal. I was clicking through the moves and the first click must have been too low and I selected resign on accident. As my mouse went up to back up through the game I confirmed. Before even really knowing what happened I was back at the games page. Just really unfortunate, and I wanted to vent it. I hope this doesn't happen to anybody else.

jorripetersson

Just did it myself. Phone is pretty slow sometimes so can often click twice as it stalls and on something that isn't exactly intended. So i was clicking the arrows twice while it failed to load and managed to blast through the confirm dialogue in a split second.

 

Yep should be hidden. Plus the arrows and submit button are quite close and move around a lot. Don't know if I will contact support but send amsg in chat to the other player.

Only a few moves in but it is a tournament where i am barely leading the group (more because i played more games) so in the likely event someone beats me by one point to the next round that would suck big time 😆

jorripetersson

As said the slowness of my phone clicked stright through that  confirm dialogue which popped up directly over the arrows in the #plit scond my finger was moving to touch the screen. Didn't even know i had clicked resign

Martin_Stahl
jorripetersson wrote:

As said the slowness of my phone clicked stright through that  confirm dialogue which popped up directly over the arrows in the #plit scond my finger was moving to touch the screen. Didn't even know i had clicked resign

 

You could contact support, but they won't likely resume the game unless your opponent agrees:

https://support.chess.com/article/346-contact-us

jorripetersson

I can't imagine investing time to write insecure comments about subjects you aren't interested in on internet forumswink