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Please make the website more forgiving for laggy connections.

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tkeyes850
Dec 7, 2025
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#1

My WI-FI sucks where i live and I can't do anything about it. But its ridiculous how it considers the game to be abandoned even if the connection was only dropped for a few seconds. Ive lost quite a few games just because the website is too aggressive about disconnections. My laptop doesn't even get 2 seconds to auto reconnect before its considered abandoned. 

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Flynn347
Mar 4, 2026
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#2

Also it should compensate the full amount of lag instead of just 1 second

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Martin_Stahl
Mar 4, 2026
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#3
Flynn347 wrote:

Also it should compensate the full amount of lag instead of just 1 second


The site isn’t going to compensate for all lag. But it does more than 1 second, since there is a minimum of ½ a second and a bank of 1 second of any two move pair.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8615369-what-is-lag-forgiveness-why-did-the-clocks-suddenly-change