Time problem

Could someone please check my game with Monxini from Chile. 9.6. 2013. around midnight CET. I had 0.3 secs left, he had nothing, but the computer gave him some time and I lost the game! Feeling crappy right now.

Get over it.

veltruski,

What you experienced was caused by internet lag. To learn more about this, please click the following links.

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/91/0/why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken

http://support.chess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/121/0/what-is-lag-and-what-are-the-colored-lag-indicators-in-live-chess

So I am playing a game tonight and we are 15 moves in and I am in great position to win.  I have around 7 minutes left and my opponent has 6.  I am waiting for his move.  His clock is ticking down and mine is stopped.  After about 2 minutes there is a shutter in my display (I am using an IPad) and my time goes down and his goes up.  Another 2 minutes goes by with his time winding down and mine stopped.  Another shudder and I lose some time and he gains some time, but not the entire two minutes.  Eventually, I see his move and 1 second later I loose on time.

How is this possible?

Sounds like you must have lost your connection temporarily, and while your iPad continued to count your opponent's clock down, he'd actually already made his move and it was your clock counting down.

Because you'd lost your connection, your iPad had no way of knowing this, and so led you to believe you were still waiting for your opponent to move while it was in fact your turn.

If that's the problem all chess.com would have to do is send the device a periodic message to tell it it's still connected.

And visa versa.  chess.com might be able to detect it, but if the device is still in the dark about it's connection status it (and the player using it) will still be none-the-wiser.