On Vacation, Still on line???
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Barring any technical glitches, your opponent clicked the vacation option, and it just means his games are on hold until he unchecks that option. He or she can still go online though; perhaps he got tired playing, or perhaps he's really on vacation. The best way to know is to send him/her a message. You can see this vacation option while you're online game is shown (when you're playing): click the "change board settings" link.
well, your opponent can say that he is on vacation so that he won't lose on time if he's getting low on time. At the same time, you can be on vacation and still be online.
I'm likely to do the same thing next week. While I'm out-of-town on business I won't have time to play moves in my correspondence game, but I probably will have time to reply to messages, notes, and comments. Of course, I'll tell my opponent that in advance so he's not wondering what's happening. :)
You can be on the site even though you are on vacation. Vacation can occur when someone is NOT really on vacation: if you're a platinum member, chess.com automatically puts you on vacation instead of letting your time run out. I was upset earlier this year when I had a couple hours left, was studying the game on a separate board, went to make my move and saw chess.com had put me on vacation while I was contemplating the move even though I didn't need it!
I went on vacation on chess.com for 2 weeks in 2017 when I went on a Caribbean Cruise and did NOT pay for the Internet option aboard ship: I had many things to do besides get distracted by the Internet! But one day we went to a beach on the Yucatan Peninsula that had free WiFi. I used my phone to quickly check out my games while we were resting a while in lounge chairs after swimming. So I was really on vacation and not in a position to begin seriously studying moves, yet I was online at chess.com. I took a couple beach pictures, posted them on a bicycling site where I'm a member, and that was it for Internet.
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My opponent and I are 22 moves onto our game, (been playing for the past couple hours) when the following notice appears:-
Your opponent is currently on vacation! They have 1 month of vacation time left, but may be back sooner.
Yet he is still shown as as online, How come??? Am I missing something here????