Why do people disconnect when I'm winning?

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Avatar of Kyobir

People always seem to disconnect when I'm in a winning position... I like to imagine they're playing on a computer and they just yoinked the ethernet cable. Can somebody tell me what's actually happening?

Avatar of GMegasDoux

Do you mean they flag, or abort/quit the game? I have played a couple of games where people have made no moves for the last x minutes and flag because they blunder.

Avatar of Hedgehog1963

Selfish, spiteful people leaving you hanging because of you beating them.

Avatar of rossovesky

Mostly because they get frustrated when losing and decide to just abandon the game. Although sometimes I disconnect too when my wifi is bad so maybe don't just assume your opponent is tilting

Avatar of Erkunden

Rage quit

Avatar of Spreeathener

Because they´re hardly likely to disconnect when they themselves are winning

Avatar of CoffeeGeneral

I wonder if your trollface picture has an effect :P

Avatar of BRIAN-BluNDeReR
Exactly.
Avatar of BlueHen86

Someone was at the front door.

Avatar of hp123_e

It's because they can't stand the fact that you're winning, so they disconnect so that technically you didn't win for them.

Avatar of Kyobir
GMegasDoux wrote:

Do you mean they flag, or abort/quit the game? I have played a couple of games where people have made no moves for the last x minutes and flag because they blunder.

Neither, they just outright disconnect.

Avatar of Kyobir
Tohru-Honda wrote:

hi

hello

Avatar of SoupSailor
They closed the tab/app without bothering to hit the resign button first.
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SoupSailor72 wrote:
They closed the tab/app without bothering to hit the resign button first.

oh that explains it

Avatar of FutureCheckmateChess

today i captured a free queen and two minutes later they finally did something but that was resign

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FutureCheckmateChess wrote:

today i captured a free queen and two minutes later they finally did something but that was resign

This happens to me too! Haha