My misunderstanding then. I didn't think there could be incremental time in a rapid game. He'd be below 10 seconds and then pick up 20 or 30 seconds, and then be back over a minute. Really strange.
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had a player mated in one and, the system or something resigned me?
There are definitely some people who have figured out a way to cheat on time...it's rare, but it does happen. 99% of the time it's some sort of system lag or internet connectivity issue. But once in a while you encounter someone that has figured out how to hack the system. You can say it's impossible all you want but nothing is impossible when it comes to exploiting technology...difficult perhaps, but not impossible.
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crackbabyjuice wrote:
There are definitely some people who have figured out a way to cheat on time...it's rare, but it does happen. 99% of the time it's some sort of system lag or internet connectivity issue. But once in a while you encounter someone that has figured out how to hack the system. You can say it's impossible all you want but nothing is impossible when it comes to exploiting technology...difficult perhaps, but not impossible.
If you look at the games in the archive, any potential time manipulation isn't going to be evident in the game. The server is the controller of the official clocks.
In order to hack the time, the live server would have to be exploited in a way to change timestamps completely and anyone with that kind of access is going to do something more than modify a clock occasionally.
Clock changes are going to come down to lag, lag compensation, and disconnects.
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
You can see the game here:
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6315333508
He's picking up time as he's timing out. I asked him to resign but he wouldn't. How does this even happen?