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Does anybody besides me seem to deal with a timer issues?... and I don’t mean slow moves. For some reason I lose substantial time off my timer after my opponents moves. Is this a form of cheating? Because it seems to happen often enough for me to think so. Some type of network tampering if you ask me
Apr 21, 2021
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imnotthatgood87 wrote:
Does anybody besides me seem to deal with a timer issues?... and I don’t mean slow moves. For some reason I lose substantial time off my timer after my opponents moves. Is this a form of cheating? Because it seems to happen often enough for me to think so. Some type of network tampering if you ask me
Your opponent can't impact your connection.
Some of the information in the following may help:
https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues
Apr 21, 2021
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I’ve seen that in finals. If you are way behind, let’s say a Queen down, your opponent somehow gets extra seconds. The good thing is that works the same way when you are way ahead. I personally don’t like it.
Apr 21, 2021
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barondali wrote:
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The source of your problem is most likely lag or internet issues. If I am not mistaken, whatever time issues you suffer from lag or bad internet, is also suffered by your opponent in order to make it fair (I'm not completely sure about that one, but I seem to recall hearing it from a site moderator).
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The site tries not to pair a member with a good connection with someone with a poor connection, but once a game starts, if one member's connection starts having issues, that doesn't impact the other player's connectivity or clock.
Apr 21, 2021
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fariddmx2 wrote:
I’ve seen that in finals. If you are way behind, let’s say a Queen down, your opponent somehow gets extra seconds. The good thing is that works the same way when you are way ahead. I personally don’t like it.
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
Apr 21, 2021
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#6
Definitely internet problem, had the same problem January. Problem was shared address, once returned to single use everything sped up and no more clock issues. (that was after at least 8 lost games down to time 
) I hope that this helps.
It's much more likely that your internet is cutting off than you playing against some mastermind doing the impossible.
Why r there so many threads abt this?
Other than the fact that it’s a common problem to have bad internet
Apr 21, 2021
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Constant disconnection today. If I could share my screenshots, you’d be shocked. I can’t play in bullet mode. Either I’m disconnected or my opponent. I have a screenshot showing that the game has been interrupted while a premove was entered and there’s still just over 1 sec on my own clock ... and 8 on my opponent’s. Guess what? I lost with 1 sec left and premove entered. Amazing and upsetting.
dumberovski wrote:
Constant disconnection today. If I could share my screenshots, you’d be shocked. I can’t play in bullet mode. Either I’m disconnected or my opponent. I have a screenshot showing that the game has been interrupted while a premove was entered and there’s still just over 1 sec on my own clock ... and 8 on my opponent’s. Guess what? I lost with 1 sec left and premove entered. Amazing and upsetting.
Are you playing on Wifi?
Clock tampering doesnt exist on chess.com
if ur having clock issues its because of ur connection to the servers.
Apr 21, 2021
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dumberovski wrote:
Constant disconnection today. If I could share my screenshots, you’d be shocked. I can’t play in bullet mode. Either I’m disconnected or my opponent. I have a screenshot showing that the game has been interrupted while a premove was entered and there’s still just over 1 sec on my own clock ... and 8 on my opponent’s. Guess what? I lost with 1 sec left and premove entered. Amazing and upsetting.
You didn't have second left, or rather you had a second during the premove but connection issues prevented the move making it to the server before that time had expired.
Apr 21, 2021
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imnotthatgood87 wrote:
Does anybody besides me seem to deal with a timer issues?... and I don’t mean slow moves. For some reason I lose substantial time off my timer after my opponents moves. Is this a form of cheating? Because it seems to happen often enough for me to think so. Some type of network tampering if you ask me
hehe, if you can tamper this, why not make it so that your clock never moves down and your opponents clock wastes double the amount of time
Why do so many people lose on bad connection and proceed to claim their opponent was tampering with their clock? OP didn't assert this so overtly, but I've seen others post vicious messages accusing their opponent of doing this. People need to understand that this is bad connection, which most people (myself included), seem to have. I apologize to whoever I'm posting after, as posts are coming in faster than I can type this one. I believe it's still a relevant question, though.
canadian_rt wrote:
imnotthatgood87 wrote:
Does anybody besides me seem to deal with a timer issues?... and I don’t mean slow moves. For some reason I lose substantial time off my timer after my opponents moves. Is this a form of cheating? Because it seems to happen often enough for me to think so. Some type of network tampering if you ask me
hehe, if you can tamper this, why not make it so that your clock never moves down and your opponents clock wastes double the amount of time
+1