Do you want to claim victory on time?

I was playing a 24 hour daily game and waiting for the other person to move.

The time counts down in hours and then under 1 hour in minutes.

When it gets inside about 15 minutes a pop-up appears asking if you want 'claim victory on time'

So basically you can claim victory once your opponent has less than 15 minutes left to move.

Seemed curious and was just wondering why that option is offered instead of just letting the clock run out?

That sounds new but my guess is that they actually had run out of time already so it prompted you to see if you wanted to claim the win.

Do you have the auto-claim option turned off in your settings?

Hey Martin,

No I have auto-claim turned on and it works. I have won a Daily victory on time automatically within the last week.

But today I was watching the clock tick down on a game and when I hit refresh there was 14 minutes left for kiddo2s to move and a message popped up asking if I wanted to claim victory on time.

I should have screen-shotted it I guess.

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/186875368

I think that would depend on your auto-claim setting. In non-tournament settings, if that is off, the game would stick around until 60 days on timed-out status.