Yep. Know the feeling. They have problems with the servers and it is also very sensitive about the internet-connection, any short problems with it and you will loose the game. It really pisses me off too. I never play anymore if I can not be sure that connection is good. Chess is very, very frustrating game anyway. I hate loosing even when it is my own fault, like it is in most of times.
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Mar 13, 2023
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You have been playing for more than two years here. More than 30,022 live games. Over all that time, you have lost 254 games by abandonment- a 0.8% rate.
However, you have lost 200 games that way in the last month, out of 3748 played, a 5.3% rate.
Obviously, something is going on.
In that same period, you won 83 games by abandonment, a 2.2% rate, so it seems clear that you are having a bigger problem with it than the people you play.
While the site's problems have been well publicized, it is possible that something changed on your side of the connection.
My theory is, there are too many unnecesary/complicated functions on site, and that it actually requires unreasonable amount of resources on players end to load it properly, so people with older computers just get lags and freezes.
I mean its chess, not some shooter-based fps game, this stuff really shouldnt be that hard, yet so many people downplay/deny the problem, but i know SB and happen to agree with justbefair, that this could be a technical issue on your side.
Are you playing with maybe a lot of tabs opened in browser? Do you use a free VPN maybe?
if the game is freezing completely(not just lagging),that looks to me more like a technical issue on your PC. Maybe try optimizing for your PC performance? close apps, stop downloads etc.
But,about the abort problem, why would the site abort you if you still had connection? Like this is just weird. The VPN could cause this, but still...
btw for me, i dont get freezes but i do get small lags sometimes that make me move things to wrong squares,but since my PC broke it could be my old laptops fault.
P.S. i just wanna say that its really edit SBup, that they dont optimize for people with slow PCs.
You cant even play chess when your poor.
So I just lost like 10 games because the site just decides to abort the damn game and take away the points. Always the same thing: It freezes, won´t let you move and then, boom game aborted you lost. It´s getting pretty annoying. I mean you spend time on this getting your rating up and then in a span of 20 minutes it´s all gone because of their damn site. Will they give the points back? I doubt it.