The DDos attack on chess.com has now became so often but nobody seems to care

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SoulArmor wrote:

@Martin_Stahl, if you're correct, then you'd have to explain the phenomenon that it only happens when I'm winning? A basic statistics principles such as the law of large numbers states the more examples you have the more the results will average out. When it only happens during a winning position, and the sample size is in the 1000s (as far a games played), that isn't averaging out. Even one sided figures like 70/30 aren't necessarily outside of the realm of possibility for something random.

99 times out of 100 is not random. If you flip a coin and get tails 99 / 100 times that's not random the coin is clearly weighted

It doesn't only happen when you're winning. It's more noticable when you are winning or think you are and if you're losing it won't really cause you to notice in most cases.

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SoulArmor wrote:

@Martin_Stahl, if you're correct, then you'd have to explain the phenomenon that it only happens when I'm winning? A basic statistics principles such as the law of large numbers states the more examples you have the more the results will average out. When it only happens during a winning position, and the sample size is in the 1000s (as far a games played), that isn't averaging out. Even one sided figures like 70/30 aren't necessarily outside of the realm of possibility for something random.

99 times out of 100 is not random. If you flip a coin and get tails 99 / 100 times that's not random the coin is clearly weighted

cope harder

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I threatened to sue the administrators and the lag bombing stopped.

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M1m1c15 wrote:
Guys, stop trying to make elaborate excuses that people are cheating. Your opponent CANNOT impact your connection in ANYWAY.

Clearly they can. I play minimum 50 games a day and would win 98% of them but I wind up losing up 20+ seconds in completely winning positions a couple off mate or about to win on time. I never have it happen unless I'm winning. Ever

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Martin_Stahl wrote:
SoulArmor wrote:

@Martin_Stahl, if you're correct, then you'd have to explain the phenomenon that it only happens when I'm winning? A basic statistics principles such as the law of large numbers states the more examples you have the more the results will average out. When it only happens during a winning position, and the sample size is in the 1000s (as far a games played), that isn't averaging out. Even one sided figures like 70/30 aren't necessarily outside of the realm of possibility for something random.

99 times out of 100 is not random. If you flip a coin and get tails 99 / 100 times that's not random the coin is clearly weighted

It doesn't only happen when you're winning. It's more noticable when you are winning or think you are and if you're losing it won't really cause you to notice in most cases.

It only happens when we are winning you retard. Why would we complain if we were losing? You must have 5 brain cells

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Actually, I can relate to OP. I broke my phone because of a hacker on this site. 
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-broke-my-phone-because-of-a-stupid-hacker

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lunasantin wrote:

Actually, I can relate to OP. I broke my phone because of a hacker on this site. 
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-broke-my-phone-because-of-a-stupid-hacker

Can you actually stop being such a troll

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It's not funny

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I agree with the original poster too that something is going on. I have been playing for years over several different ISP and locations, and I see a lot of "drops" when I am winning and rarely see opponents drop when I am losing. I also watch a lot of streamers like Eric Rosen and Chessbrahs and you never see this happening to them, because they carry weight with chess.com and their complaints would get looked into.

There is a claim that hackers don't have our connection details, but I've been around a long time and I remember techniques using iirc where you could foul up someone's connection by sending various "misformed" messages via the server to users to knock them offline. This was back before you could register a handle, so people would knock you offline if they wanted to use that handle as it was first come first serve.

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Darryl_In_Paradise wrote:

I agree with the original poster too that something is going on. I have been playing for years over several different ISP and locations, and I see a lot of "drops" when I am winning and rarely see opponents drop when I am losing. I also watch a lot of streamers like Eric Rosen and Chessbrahs and you never see this happening to them, because they carry weight with chess.com and their complaints would get looked into.

There is a claim that hackers don't have our connection details, but I've been around a long time and I remember techniques using iirc where you could foul up someone's connection by sending various "misformed" messages via the server to users to knock them offline. This was back before you could register a handle, so people would knock you offline if they wanted to use that handle as it was first come first serve.

The server doesn't just accept any traffic. If there ever happened to be an exploit that would alla member to disconnect another member it would be quickly found and patched but it's highly unlikely any such exploit exists