Can My Opponent cause me to disconnect?

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I have experienced not a few occasions when I get disconnected from Chess.com. Funny thing is, it usually happens when I made a winning move and just after, I get disconnected. Is there a way that my opponent is deliberately doing this? can they do this?

llama51

No, your opponent can't do that.

If you have connection issues when you're losing, it's not as memorable. Connection issues when you're hoping to win the game has a much larger impact psychologically... so it seems like this only happens "when you play a winning move" but it probably happens at random, and having a nice position is different from playing a winning move. For example if you had disconnected 1 move earlier would you have felt the same way? Since you were winning, probably you would feel the same way.

What about 2-5 moves earlier? Again, if your position was good, you'd probably feel the same way. etc. So it doesn't happen when you play a winning move. It's just that losing from a favorable position due to disconnect is very frustrating.

UpbeatAngle

Here are resources to help you with connection issues 

 

https://support.chess.com/category/145-connection-issues