Ending vacation without losing games?

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xlightningz

I'm ashamed to admit that I completely forgot about my online games on chess.com for about a week. Thankfully, auto-vacation kicked in, but now I have multiple games with "a few seconds" left. How can I make a move in each of them after ending vacation before they start to auto-lose?

Mr_Bump

It's your time... like in real chess; if you leave yourself with insufficient time to make a number of moves before time control, you only have yourself to blame!

Scottrf

Plan all your moves and blitz them? But I'm almost certain time will be added to your clock as soon as you get back from vacation, seeing as it deducts multiples of 24 hours from your vacation time and adds the remaining unused vacation time onto your clock when you come back.

Just play, you should be fine.

Lucidish_Lux

Do plan out each move just to be on the safe side, but remember, if auto-vacation stopped you from losing once....it should stop you from losing again, if all else fails. I usually come back to a few hours on my worst-case game, or at least an hour.

xlightningz

Thank you all for the input and I managed to avoid any time-losses. I still don't know if I managed to move all my games in <60 seconds or if I had some leeway but it worked nonetheless.