Abandoned game after short wifi lag

I was playing a live game and my connection blacked out for a couple of minutes. When I came back (in principle still having 6 minutes left) I found out my game was abandoned.

That was really frustrating because the game was equal and it was clear I did not abandoned the game on purpose. On the other hand, I agree that waiting for someone who is loosing and never gonna be back is also frustrating.

However, I believe it can be useful if, before automatically assigning a lost to a player, the computer checks the position evaluation and assigns a lost only if the player is loosing (evaluation of +/- 2 or whatever)

What do you think?

They could do some thing like that but then a person would play a GM make 5 moves be equal then leave and auto get a draw. It could be frusterating but they had to wait six minutes for you to come back and both people are annoyed.

mmascher wrote:''...the computer checks the position evaluation and assigns a lost only if the player is loosing (evaluation of +/- 2 or whatever)''

Its a very interesting thought. No one says the game ends a draw, i believe mmascher was trying to say its unexceptable to lose because you are not in the game for a couple of minutes, and have another 6 minutes behind.. If a player DOES NOT return for the game, he will lose it. There is nothing to be done for connection problems. But if i have enough time, i would like to continue playing till the last second! :)

Yes exactly, I don't understand why one should lose a game for a relatively short connection problem. There are other ways to handle the use case of players abandoning the game because they are losing. Checking the computer evaluation is just one. Another one is to monitor the "behavior" of a player, and assign the automatic defeat only he has abandoned other games before.

If a player does have an equal evaluation in the game, and he has never abandoned a game before, it's likely he has a connection problem and can come back (like in my case)...