Disconnection DOS attack?
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Aug 14, 2020
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#44
I have a VPN configured and it still happened so this is an attack on the Chess.com server. You have to be pretty pathetic to cheat in online game where we're supposed to be working to get better or just for good competition. What do you gain by cheating? A higher rating that's not a true indication of your skill or lack thereof.
this happened to me to day..when my opponents time was less than 1 minutes and i was on 5 minutes my connection started disconnecting and connecting but in quick succession, and then mouse started becoming unstable when moving, everything become very slow and when i moved my queen, the queen just dropped where it wasn't supposed, and he took my queen.
i lost all my pieces and i was being checked, and while the opponents time was less then 5 secs it kept jumping back to 5 second after he plays.
I just won on time before he checkmate me
Sep 16, 2020
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#46
XtremeMate: sounds like one of your local services took a crap right at the worst time. Tis' the nature of electronic communications. Just when you need it to work most, k-pow! it blows up in your face.
Apr 11, 2023
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#47
smellybooty99 wrote:
theres actually a way to do it using ddos tool and the just dos the url of the current game. its a tool called loic ive seen people use it before.
That would only impact the site and not the opponent and if it caused an issue, it would impact the sending player as much as anything. The two clients don't directly connect, so that doesn't impact the other client unless the process ends up causing server issues for everyone.
I didn’t know this was a thing, dang
Apr 26, 2023
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#49
EllRado wrote:
I didn’t know this was a thing, dang
It's not a thing.
Jan 18, 2025
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#50
MormonRepublican2 wrote:
it's the advertiser companies. some chess players are rich enough to buy ads and use those that adspace to make sure you lose connection by having the ad server take priority and deliver the content extra slow. It's a side effect of the end of net neutrality.
Members here can't control which ads are shown since the site uses a third parry ad provider. It also wouldn't be an effective way to do it, even if they could manage to get bad code past the controls, as there's no guarantee any of their opponents would ever get it.
Ads can cause some latency though.
you are right, this "disconnection attack" is definitely a global conspiracy. not only on this game server, but on every single one that i have played real-time games with others. People don't think it's their local internet, but prolly is. the chances that it is some hacker tricking them into a loss is less than 0. I didn't think about Bezos, I don't know anything about amazon, but ok... good enough. Yeah, a guy like that would never have time to hack on anything except to enhance his own product.
The Op has absolutely no reason to invest any time to rectify a problem that does not realistically exist.
sorry for being the "Occam's Razor" guy. I don't think the Ops are fools at all to totally dismiss this topic as total nonsense.