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Hi guys, I was  playing a blitz a little while back.  I was almost a full Queen up  (I was 8 points up) and then something extremely bad happened I lost my connection for a few seconds and bam they declared me as the  loser... WHAT? This is just insane.. I had lost my connection for a couple of seconds and they just declared me as the loser despite me having more than  a minute on a clock when my opponent even had less time than I did, okay I do understand that during a rapid game or even a daily game this may come off as handy. As a lot of people may just walk away for no reason for a while in rapid games, but  BLITZ? Really? They are 3  minutes long.. After all even if someone gets to a disappointing result how much more time would they have on the clock left anyway? A minute or so or 2 minutes at best? Come on man at least give this much time to come back, losing like this is  very upsetting.  Once again I understand the rules but if you see my point,  a blitz is just 3 minutes, there is not even a good chance that anyone's time will be wasted, can't opponents wait for 1 minute? What is your opinion on this guys to me this is absolutely ridiculous, but then again that is my opinion I think they should definitely remove the time that they give us to come back and exchange it for the time we have left on our clocks. 

Avatar of SecretProfessional

Oh and no I  am not showing hate on this website, in fact I love this website . It's much better than the competition, but then this  thing sucks as far as I am concerned. 

Avatar of sunnypajamas

Sorry about that, chess.com was thinking that you left the app/website, happens a lot to players. It's just to prevent players from abandoning the game in a losing position.

Avatar of SecretProfessional

Yes, you have got a good point in there that people will abandon their losing positions. However I am not saying to have such a feature in Rapids, yes that can be extremely annoying in Rapids but Blitz are so short to the fact that by the time  they get to a losing position most of their time is lost, what can waiting for a 1 minute and 50 seconds do to you at max? Nothing much, right?