I'm sure some players disconnect when they are losing just to be idiots.
However the server here is trash and I've been disconnected by the server dozens and dozens of times, increasingly in the last six months. I've commented on this and I get nonsense replies from moderators. And I've been disconnected in very close positions or even winning positions. So it's not always the player.
Internet problems cause people to be losing due to the distraction it causes to them.
Just went online to post about this so I'm necroing the thread. Seems like a good solution as I'm facing people who constantly disconnect when I play a winning move in 3+2. it's clear rage quitting. I block and report since I'm sick of it and it's deliberate.
My guess is they just start a new account when they get blocked by too many. Cheaters all over the place.
I had one who decided to keep the game running with 3 minutes on his clock because I'd managed to outsmart him. With 1 minute left I decided to call him out and ask why he doesn't just resign. No reply. I said I'd report his time-wasting and he then replied saying he has lots of accounts and doesn't care if one gets shut down
That's all we can do at the moment. Call them out, block and report. Chess.com should turn an AI loose on them to clean things up quickly.
That's all we can do at the moment. Call them out, block and report. Chess.com should turn an AI loose on them to clean things up quickly.
When my opponent pisses around for 10 minutes and I look at something else on my phone for 10 seconds, I'd like not to be considered the one who abandoned the game
That's not what is meant. It's all of the players who disconnect as soon as their opponent plays a winning move.
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This is a persistent issue, a pathetic player with child's mentality disconnects during a game leaving you hanging. And I know sometimes it happens because of an actual connection issue but surely there are ways to distinguish between a random connection issue and persistent disconnections.
A simple colour coding of players on the live game graph for example can give a quick indication which players disconnect often and which ones don't:
green - none to low disconnection issues
amber - some disconnection issues
red - constant disconnection issues
It's a simple idea and can't be particuarly hard to code. It can also work when picking just a random game, players can be paired up by their colour code, greens v greens, ambers v ambers and reds v reds, let all the child-like imbeciles play one another and watch each other disconnect, while all the other people who want to play properly can just get on with it.
Just an idea.