I'm not sure if you mean this; it's happened to me several times. You are winning the game, when it's your turn to move the connection is broken and can't be reloaded. You run out of time and lose the game, plus you get a message that you may have your account restricted for violating the fairplay policy. It's so infuriating that I have gone mainly to correspondence games.
Until now I've thought that it must be the crummy internet service that we have in our third-world university housing (China), but now I'm wondering if it may be some tampering from the opposing side as you suggest. I don't know how they do it if that is indeed the case, but I would also like to know. As I recall, it usually happens with younger opponents from a particular region of the world. They also tend to walk away from the game with the clock running and and a ton of time left if they are losing, instead of simply resigning. So you sit there for an hour waiting for them to move.
It's irritating and makes me wonder what motivates them to such behaviour. I sympathize and will watch this forum to see if anyone can provide an answer.
Hi, please refer to my forum topic in general discussion. It has happened several times now, not often, but when it dies you notice it. Opponent is loosing and just before the end, the game freezes up and you can not enter your move, yet your clock keeps ticking. Any explanations and please try and stiop this somehow in your software proramme.