Unjustly lose game!

Hello everyone!

My question is:

This is not my first game against an opponent in live chess, I have advantage in the game and I lead on time, while my opponent begins to run out of time. And now comes the annoying moment. Suddenly appears in a message on the computer screen "trying to reconnect". And after he does it a few times suddenly my time is alredy ran out and the opponent gets more time than he had,In the end only because of this reason I lost the game. If someone knows why it happened or how to stop this phenomenon,I will be happy and grateful person because it is not fair!

Thank you all!

Its named latency or lag:

Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind. ^[1] In real-time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs.^[2][3] The most common use regards online gaming when the game doesn't respond in sync with the player's controls, usually due to a slow internet connection, server latency or overworked hardware.

Lag is also often used in reference to video games to describe to the delay (or latency) between an action by a player and the reaction of the game.^[4]

In distributed applications (such as MMORPGs), lag is often caused by communication latency, which is the time taken for a sent packet of data to be received at the other end. It includes the time to encode the packet for transmission and transmit it, the time for that data to traverse the network equipment between the nodes, and the time to receive and decode the data. This is also known as "one-way latency". A minimum bound on latency is determined by the distance between communicating devices and the speed at which the signal propagates in the circuits (typically 70–95% of the speed of light in vacuum). Actual latency is often much higher because of packet processing in networking equipment, and other traffic.

The term lag is often also used as a synonym for communication latency.^[5] This can be misleading because there can be other causes for the symptom.

Ok thank you very much!!

Its sometime of lag correction mechanism, where the computer finds out the delay from the Internet correction and tries to adjust to it. Or you can simply think that's really unfair and everyone is cheating against you whatever makes you happy 

It's weird how a simple internet application like chess.com can lag SO much that it sometimes falls behind like 1 minute. It's definitely not a problem of my internet connection. I never have any latancy issues; only on chess.com.

have you ever played on other server? playchess, fics, chessok? All servers get lag problems, and those are not even browser based like chess.com, I rarely noticed lag at least for me. But funny thing about lag is you see your opponent gaining time and you think damn that's an unfair advantage, most of the times they see it exactly like we do and are thinking the same way about you

Yes other chess servers lag too. But I just don't understand how it can lag so much? It's definitely not my internet connection.

This is not fide or uscf rated rules don't really apply. And the idea is to be fair for both opponents but just ask about it to some of the staff maybe they can change that if there are more complains.

those are not fide or uscf rules those are universal chess rules such as the pieces movement. chess.com is a private and independent website they can change the rules they want to, and thats no even changing.

You see your clock running at one speed, but your opponent may see it at another speed, its not completely direct

I understand that, but fide doesn't own the game of chess although they want to :) much before ever existed any chess federation those rules already existed and chess.com is in no way related with FIDE or USCF, but just report your complain Im sure they will explain much better than I can use this link:

http://support.chess.com/Tickets/Submit

Any website will ofer its own adaptation of the rules, thats why all them have a TOS (Terms of service) that everyone is supposed to read (except for me) where they explain how they adapt the rules to fit their website

What you (most probably) deliberately try not to understand is, that the actual time that user has isn't 79 seconds, but 60, and the 19 seconds is lost through lag. Lag adjustment is simply trying to make things fair, so that every user has those 60 seconds of thinking. It's not a psychopathic conspiracy especially engineered for us poor chess.com users.

I do, i think it would be fun.  Thing is that weather you liek ir or not, Live chess tends to lag because:

1.  Internet connections sometimes tend to suck,

2. The server is filled up with people.

3. Ther eis an issue with the app (in the end the thing is kinda free you know, so it does not has to be perfect)

Finally, when you see the clock being "added" some time in reality what happened is:

You made your move, the move was sent to the server and from the server it was sent to your opponent (it is moreover like that but I hate technical details) in some point between the server and the move, lag appeared and ruine dthe day, then your opponent received the move and he make his move when he had 1.40 secs, but the move had to go all the way back to you so you could see it, in the meantime, you saw his clock hit 1.20 secs, while he was still at 1.40, and teh fact that a pop up error stating that you have been disconnected should be able to tell you enough... you are DISCONNECTED, no longer on the server, so whatever you are viewing behind that error, or ahppened just before... is long passed, and yes, it is kind of unfair, but I have two practic solutions:

1. Deal with it (I am a grown boy so I think I can... )

2. get out of my chair and play OTB where the only Lag I experience is the brains of my opponent malfunctioning and they game afalling dead.

I understand your frustration, but they don't give anything. those extra seconds you think they gain is due to the difference on your connection speed, when you see your piece moving its not the same time he sees it, and those seconds is the estimated time your opponent lost. otherwise it would be unfair for him right?

The 1.21 you see is generated on your local machine not on the server.

I got lost somewhere between the 8th and 9th move,you right the rest of the world is wrong the only suggestion I see fit is to write down your concerns and send them to mr.Kirsan Ilyumzhinov here: http://www.fide.com/index.php

At move 9 on your LOCAL machine it said your opponent had 1.21 to play. But after the disconnection, the server had to check the latency of the line and found out that your opponent got robed in 20 seconds against you so he gave him the extra time

How JAVA works:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/program.htm

what part you think its false?

yeres the 1.21 you see is on your side. You do not see either the server side if there is any or your opponent side. And even if it shows 1.21 on your screen it dows not mean that 1.21 was the information transmited to the server, or even if any time at all was sent by your computer, maybe you were lagging to.