Since the end of April about 40-50% of my loses in 5/0 blitz are due to mouse slips. I just bite the bullet ,don't say anything ,and carry on. There are some software issues with it and right now it is borderline dreadful as a gaming mouse.
Have you had a mouse-slip decide your game?
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2 days ago
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What, when the mouse suddenly doesn't work anymore? That only happens here and it happens often. On my laptop. On my phone it never happens. On my lap top it only happens here. I get paranoid and think my opponent is screwing me somehow. Its a common ongoing unplesant experiece here. I'm almost blind so i need to play on my laptop to see. But you lose about 20 seconds a game when it happens.
Yes, many games, but also makes a nice excuse to avoid the whole I blundered my queen thing..
1 day ago
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#46
PatientMineField wrote:
A general question for everyone and a story to go along with it.
I bought this gaming mouse a few months ago, and it seems the sensitivity of it can be random. Sometimes it drags, but a lot of the times it is very sensitive. Today it was fluctuating and in my last game, I believe I had 2-3 mouse slips. One was a knight move I was thinking of making anyways, but the last one was a critical moment in the game. My opponent took forever on his move thinking of a way to stop my pawn promotion, and I was calculating 3 variations of moves he could make, all of them ended with me either making a queen or being up around a rook/piece, so I was pretty confident I had it. I clicked the pawn and the move I wanted/needed was fxe7, and the pawn moved forward. F7. My opponent took my piece and now had the new queening square guarded by two pieces. I knew there was nothing else I could do. I sent a message in the chat, but simply resigned.
Feels pretty devastating having a mouse-slip control the outcome of a game. From winning to losing. First time something like this has happened in around 850 games or something with online chess.
Has this happened to you? And can I get some F's in the chat.
F.
And dont worry, I've had my fair share of mouseslips lol
(Probably close to a thousand)
Yeah, once