Two complaints that matter.

1. When the opponent has ONE King and I have a Queen, a Bishop and 4 pawns... I can, in fact, checkmate. The game system decided this was a draw as soon as I took his last pawn. I'm sure that can be corrected in the software.

2. After playing a rather long game, the server aborted the game while shutting down. That happens... What I think should mitigate that risk is the ability to pick the game back up again when the server comes back up or choose to abort it ourselves. The server already saves the moves, so... just log the time and send a message we can click on to continue.

Thanks!

1. Did you in fact time-out in this game?  If so, a draw is the correct result.

2. Interesting idea.  I think the biggest challenge would be that in this case both players are disconnected, and server outages can be unplanned.  There's probably no way to account for it in an unplanned outage and the challenge even for a planned one is that both players must return.

1. It's called a stalemate for ya.

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2. the servers only shut down at worst once a month and it gives you a heads up in the main chat, the site has to fix its bugs and update sometimes... 

I double stalemate

You achieved a stalemate.

Yes, it was a stalemate:

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=85238966

Yep, looks like a time thing.

The second issue, the programming. I lead software teams so take it from me, you don't reprogram an entire server. You change one thing or two, recompile and deploy. That's how software works. That's how software evolves over time. By people seeing what's wrong, documenting those things and eventually someone will fix it. 

So fix it.

Also, it wasn't a scheduled shutdown. The server has aborted 8 games of mine today. That's not normal.

It wasn't a time thing, you stalemated your opponent lol

 It certainly was. Even I saw it immediatly.

Ack. You are right, how stupid of me.

What about problem 2... in time perhaps someone will add the ability to pick up games that abnormally ended. In the meantime does anyone know why games are aborting today? 

I don't really see the point of picking up games.  Both chess players will have to be online at the same time.  This just isn't really manageable.  I might take a whole week off from live chess and never log back in to play the saved game.  So that will never happen.  

Server side detects if both players are still online when the server starts, in which case the probability is high that they'll be on seconds or minutes afterwards.  I write that kind of thing in my sleep, it's manageable. That's not my question... my question is, what's up with the ABENDS?