Funny how this ONLY happens when I am winning. It NEVER happens any other time. Methinks that many of those who deny the clock can be hacked might be involved in it.
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Yet no action from the site as far as I can tell...
Think I will stop using this site.
just happened to me in august 2021 - just so convenient that it happened exactly when opponent lost their last piece 2 moves before checkmate.
i did an internet connectivity test while timers were blinking and internet was fine on my end. after about 2 minutes server reconnected and i lost 8 ELO points.
pretty frustrating.
Aug 11, 2021
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#86
anirban_friends wrote:
Hi All,
I have always fallen into this trap and lost the game. Somehow my opponent (this time it was [removed, public accusations not allowed -- VP]) won the game by hacking my clock. Both clocks (his and mine) started blinking when he knew he lost the game. Then my connection was disconnected and when I rejoined he already won. See the screen shot below. I was playing the white pieces.
This problem is really making me think whether to use the portal anymore or not.
Regards,
Anirban
[removed image due to accusations -- VP]
The clock blinks if you have poor internet connection. Also chess.com is a secure site nothing can be hacked here. Your opponent did not hack and you had a poor internet connection and got disconnected, which resulted in you losing. That’s all. Don’t blame that guy for hacking
This has happened with me the opponent disconnects his data and after the countdown starts he reconnects and the clock get reset .... Opponent losses no time on this clock (p.s i was on wifi with excellent speed)
Aug 12, 2021
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#88
When the clock starts flashing it means you have lost connection or your focus is not on that tab. It has nothing to do with hacking or exploiting
Not possible to hack the clock.
...nothing can be hacked here.
dont gimme that. its possible to hack anything. go back and see Clarke's Three Laws. 1st one.
a/o who thinks s/t is 100% secure in cyberspace ?...izza naive dunce.
i want ppl to like my feet. guess i cant plz e/o. ::/ (i wear glasses)
lol !!...thx eg3...yee ! i soakim in the sea almost every day. kinda a pain in the nvm. takes me like 45 minutes a day total. but that includes my digi-nails too.
Oct 3, 2021
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#95
SueMay wrote:
This happened to me. Needs to be stopped.
No one hacked your clock. If someone had the access to the server to do that, they would be doing much more than changing clocks.
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
Oct 3, 2021
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#96
Well ok sorry, , what I meant was, use the system to stop the game, not hack.
Oct 3, 2021
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#97
SueMay wrote:
Well ok sorry, , what I meant was, use the system to stop the game, not hack.
That also doesn't happen. Your opponent's can't impact your connection either.
https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues
Nov 29, 2022
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#98
I had this happen to me today. I played against a hacker who trolled me by posting 
in the chat when it was his move on turn 5. I told him it was his turn, and he blocked me.
He then spent several minutes to make his move, after he made his move he got several minutes back on the clock. I replied instantly and lost 4,5 minutes.
He continued spending minutes on every move, then regaining it and reducing my time by the same for the next couple of moves. Whereby I lost because he had reduced my time to zero.
I am still waiting to hear if chess.com has read my report, because this is outrageous.
Nov 30, 2022
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StockPhotoSamoyed wrote:
I had this happen to me today. I played against a hacker who trolled me by posting in the chat when it was his move on turn 5. I told him it was his turn, and he blocked me.
He then spent several minutes to make his move, after he made his move he got several minutes back on the clock. I replied instantly and lost 4,5 minutes.
He continued spending minutes on every move, then regaining it and reducing my time by the same for the next couple of moves. Whereby I lost because he had reduced my time to zero.
I am still waiting to hear if chess.com has read my report, because this is outrageous.
Sounds like you were disconnected. As mentioned, your opponents can't impact your clock or connect.
https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
The official position of chess.com is apparently: "I don't care what you saw, experienced, recorded, or think. It's just not possible for it to happen. Read the FAQ, get better internet, and play better. "
This entire post is quite reminiscent of Foul Chi and the government gas lighting people and preaching safe and effective as folk are suffering and/or dropping dead from jab injuries. And now (post plandemic) that the world has gone completely crazy, it's more likely that I'll be penalized for speaking this truth than it is that there Cheaters/Manpiulators of the Glitch will be penalized for cheating.
It is April 10th, 2023. This is a very long-standing problem, and amazingly enough, chess.com's remedy is to tell everyone that their crazy, it doesn't exist, and it's their internet. I have several videos of this exact thing happening. You can see my 5G is strong. You can see my wifi signal is strong. You can also see that the people that I'm playing and losing to have a pattern in their record. They either lose by checkmate or they win matches they were losing via time or abandonment. If you look at their history (the actual matches), you see unusual time issues when you actually watch their games play out. If I can see this with no sort of hacking investigative internet sorcery magic or special skills, Surely the good folks at chess.com can address their cheaters rather than telling the people who are being cheated that their internet sucks. And before any moderator decides to respond to send me to something to read. Consider what I said above. I have videos of it. And it's not just a video of my matches. I follow these cheaters, and I have videos of their opponents experiencing the same time hacks against them. Watching these cheaters clocks go from 10 seconds to 15 seconds and a 1|0 bullet match. Did my "poor Internet connection" give my former opponents more time in their matches against everyone else for the rest of the night too?
The only thing more frustrating than watching the time someone else takes drop off of my clock is trying to address it only to come here and have chess.com say, "No! Our unhackable server is perfect. It's not me. It's you. "
It was bad the first year of playing here. But my internet was arguably poor on my S7. So when I read the canned response of how it's impossible and it must be a person's connection because there is no other possibility, It was difficult to argue despite the evidence of the contrary. But since then (from the time I got my S20), the response is nothing more than an empty non-answer that suggests that chess.com cares more about staking an "unhackable" claim than fixing the issue.
Fine! You can't be hacked. No one can touch your awesome system. It's great! Let's just say, for the purpose of saving face, "NO ONE CHEATED. But there's a glitch that allows the time loss from a select group of people's clock to be applied to their opponents clock. Now, while the benefactors of this glitch may not be writing you since 2017, well, the rest of us? we'd like you to address it.
Still a problem!!!