Trick to drop opponent's connection?

The app or whatever you use has something to give it timeframe to time out. I guess the actual lenght of time was set by a programmer. I would think there are guidelines or industry standards on how long. Also it could be the game server  that decides. I know networking, not programming, so that question is a bit out of my ballpark.

"It would be like me telling you that you know nothing about chess, and saying you can use all these fancy terms like tactics and in between moves"

You don't have to know how to play chess to be able to use these words.  There was this mother of a former student of mine, that had no desire t know anything about chess.  So when she would bring her son to tournaments, I would giver her "chess words" so it sounded like she knew what she was talking about. 

"...im not going to educate you on internet protocols and communication layers just to prove im right anymore than youd sit and educate me on chess."

You may very well be able to educate me on that stuff, and i certainly could educate you  regarding chess.  But, again...the point is that when you say things like: "This is on my laptop which has never dropped the internet connection."

All i can surmise from that statement is that you do not understand how it works.  Im not picking on you, Im not saying youre ignorant in this.  Im just saying, you should be careful what words you choose.

He demonstrated an API vulnerability.

You called ISP a "fancy word."

I think it's clear which of you is computer literate.

If 2 people want to have a cat fight, can you both switch to private messaging?

My laptop sometimes loses connection for a few seconds. You only notice it when you are doing something which continuously needs a connection like a multiplayer game. I have lost bullet games due to this.

hola

it is horrible, utterly horrible...and fascinating

yes, I could confirm same symptoms. Especially, suddenly happens when opponent in losing state, or has no ideas .
Support bounced me. So they pretend they don't have security hole, I pretend I don't wanna spend money on chess.com and chesskid.com any longer.  
 

If there was really a way to hack someone else's connection and forcibly disconnect them, and if it was as widespread as people think for people to be running into it on a regular basis, you would expect to see instructions online for how to do it, or videos of people doing it.  But a google search turns up nothing.

A more likely explanation would be an internet glitch or a server bug.

You notice the disconnects more when you're winning than in a game that you lost anyway.  To prove that it happens more when you're winning, you'd need to track your disconnections and log whether you were clearly winning, clearly losing, or it was still in the balance.  Do that for a period of time until you've logged a large number of disconnections.

Why Chess.com does not pursue the players who trick the system and show that your connection is lost when you are clearly have overwhelmed the other player and are winning. I never lose connection when I am losing but sometimes when I am winning it shows I have lost connection and then I lose while all my wifi line shows on my computer that I have full and excellent connection. So these cheaters must be controlled and exposed and this is the responsibility of chess.com otherwise it is losing credibility for not being able to provide a safe and civilized environment for the chess enthusiasts who want to engage in an intellectual game and not a hooligan's way of thinking that winning is justifying any means.

There is no hack to disconnect your opponent.  Connectivity issues could be caused by problems on your end, bugs on the server, or internet glitches somewhere between you and the server.  But their computer never talks to yours and they have no way of disconnecting you.

Ya maybe MGleason, but it is odd that it only happens when I am in clear brilliant position and without the shadow of the doubt the game will end in my favour and never this happens when I am losing! So there might be something more to it than accepting that no one can manipulate the system as it only happens when I am winning and no connection quality is weakened  in actuality and only on the chess game system it claims this disconnection. Its just does not make sense as it seems it should! 

The WiFi line on your computer only indicates the connection between your computer and your router, right there in your home.

That means that the first 1/10,000th of the connection to chess.com is working properly...

Means nothing regarding disconnects.

Does it not sound interesting to you that this happens ( whenever it happens), only when you are winning? Never when you are losing!

Personally, I suspect confirmation bias. It only MATTERS to you when you are winning.

if this would also happen when I am losing then your observation would have solid logical base, but is it not interesting or cause to ponder that this only happens when you are losing?

I just dont play then. The other site I do in rarely get disconnect but then I get restored in a few.

But on this site, you can be playing the winning move and you still lose, the second you disconnect. You are stuck trying to end the game and the piece goes back to the old spot as time runs out.Mate..piece goes back..Mate...piece goes back..try again should be mate..goes back...mate %#$$#....goes back..lol.

You can go to the forums in new browser and wait or you can watch the whole way.  But if you try to get into the game in new browser it accuses you of having 2 connections, even though 1 is supposedly dead. Thats why they say never resign ,your opponent can disconnect.

I dont wait that long and resign cilivilized so I guess thats the cost of that. Oh well.

Cant take online seriously.

You have 9 games lost by abandonment. How many of those were you in winning positions? 21 won by abandonment. How many of those were you winning?

I wonder why some players make such comments defending the site and being rather unsympathetic to the fact that happens to many, yet they defend the system and argue as if one who has experienced this is just making a false observation. I wonder if they are actual players or planted site defenders?  or maybe the ones who know how this takes place! lol Any how I think there a bit more than coincidences specially when it only happens when one is winning and never when one is losing!