Can I do other things on the site while waiting for my opponent to move?

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During the opening of a 15 min game my opponent offered a draw multiple times which I rejected, then he took like 5 minutes to make his move. Not knowing if he was gonna get back to me at all I decided to do some puzzles in the meantime. Checked the game, still no move. Next time I checked I'd apparently lost by resignation. Couldn't have been more than a minute since my opponent made his move. So how come he can stall 5 minutes and I can't take a minute to do something else on the site?

I just assumed, since I checked the game after doing a puzzle, that games would still be active while you're doing other things on the site. I guess this is not the case?

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MrChessGuruHenk wrote:

During the opening of a 15 min game my opponent offered a draw multiple times which I rejected, then he took like 5 minutes to make his move. Not knowing if he was gonna get back to me at all I decided to do some puzzles in the meantime. Checked the game, still no move. Next time I checked I'd apparently lost by resignation. Couldn't have been more than a minute since my opponent made his move. So how come he can stall 5 minutes and I can't take a minute to do something else on the site?

I just assumed, since I checked the game after doing a puzzle, that games would still be active while you're doing other things on the site. I guess this is not the case?

Did you leave the Play interface? If so, that can be considered abandoning the game and have that happen.