Cheat : Forced a win somehow with time left on the clock

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Avatar of DixieLandTN

I just played Meandmymates.  There was 1:28 left on my clock when he moved and the game ended and said white won.  There is no checkmate.  I did not resign.  Is this some sort of bug or did my opponent find a way to cheat here and force me to lose?

Avatar of WowThisIsWeird

idk, something similar happened to me once because of bad internet. But idk what happened with your situation. Was your internet fine?

Avatar of DixieLandTN

Yeah and I still had 1:38 on the clock and it just said "White Won"

It was extremely odd.  I even had a gut feeling he was cheating somehow is what makes it worse and I rarely think that.  Felt like he figured out a way to disconnect or something and still get the win.  I wasn't downloading anything and my full bandwidth was available the entire game.

Avatar of WowThisIsWeird

That's weird maybe it was a glith with the server or something. To be honest, I doubt it was a way of cheating. How would that be possible?

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

It shows game abandoned.

So you must have been disconnected from the live server for long enough for the game to get declared as abandoned.

 

That is not something your opponents can impact.

 

Here are some things you can look at to minimize issues.

https://support.chess.com/article/338-how-does-game-abandonment-work

https://support.chess.com/article/4720-online-chess-performance-optimizations

https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

Avatar of DixieLandTN

Maybe there was a glitch in my internet but I usually have zero issues.  I'm on DSL too so I have a solid connection.

Avatar of DixieLandTN

I've seen similar type bugs on other games.  Maybe I'm just being paranoid.  It was just very strange.

Avatar of Cobra2721

Yeah you probably just disconnected.. it has happened to me a few times, unlucky man but you will get the rating back.

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