chess clock issue in 5 min game

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Hello all. Is anyone else having an issue with the chess clock? I just played a game where my opponents time was down to 5 secs...I had around 15. His time basically reset every time he moved giving him “extra” secs in the game. I watched his timer as we played and his clock went to 4 then 2 then 3 then 2 then 1 then back to 2.5...1.5... 0.1 then back to 2.5 , while mine simply ran down to zero and I lost. I totally had him but his clock gave him more time so he won. Is there some kind of extra clock reward for members or am I missing something? This has happened to me on several occasions. Is there a setting in my profile that I’m missing. Thx
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zontaluma wrote:
Hello all. Is anyone else having an issue with the chess clock? I just played a game where my opponents time was down to 5 secs...I had around 15. His time basically reset every time he moved giving him “extra” secs in the game. I watched his timer as we played and his clock went to 4 then 2 then 3 then 2 then 1 then back to 2.5...1.5... 0.1 then back to 2.5 , while mine simply ran down to zero and I lost. I totally had him but his clock gave him more time so he won. Is there some kind of extra clock reward for members or am I missing something? This has happened to me on several occasions. Is there a setting in my profile that I’m missing. Thx

You were a piece up with plenty of time left (2 minutes versus 1 minute) but your play seemed purposeless and you didn't really seem to have a plan to force trading down, pushing your pawns or otherwise taking advantage of it. 

As a result, you soon fell behind on the clock and lost.

There might have been some adjustments for lag but that is not why you lost.

https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444849-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken-

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I’ll give u access to the moves If you’d like to check them out. Then you’d be able to make a well informed statement. I don’t want to get into it with u via the internet. I’ll simply say thx for the link and let me know if you’d like to see the move order. Be well
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Ok thx for checking
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zontaluma wrote:
I’ll give u access to the moves If you’d like to check them out. Then you’d be able to make a well informed statement. I don’t want to get into it with u via the internet. I’ll simply say thx for the link and let me know if you’d like to see the move order. Be well

Everyone already has access to all your games and in cases like this, it's pretty obvious what game you were talking about.