Winning bullet games with 0.1 seconds remaining

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Avatar of PDubya

I play a lot of bullet chess, and often, in the final 5-10 second frenzied orgy of pre-moves (where I'm hoping I won't get checked, or otherwise have one of my moves become illegal) I find that when the dust settles, I have won by 0.1 of a second.

0.1 remaining

This must be excruciating for my opponents, but I was wondering why I don't seem to win with, say, 0.2 seconds remaining, EVER!

It's by far the most common amount of time remaining on my clock when things get really close and I win by less than a second.

What do others see when they win on time? 

Avatar of shell_knight

Wow, good point.  I've seen 0.1 a number of times but never 0.2, 0.3 etc.

Maybe when the clocks, so to speak, "both run out," the server checks the time stamps (or whatever they call it) and when the winner is determined maybe there's some code that doesn't allow the clock to show 0 and so 0.1 is added.