I played against an 1100 for the first time [RANT]

I was playing black, and I was completely winning after he blundered his bishop...then THE GAME FROZE. When I rebooted the game, my time was up and I lost. Since then, the website has been running perfectly fine. You can check it for yourself: the "final" position had an evaluation of nearly -4 when the freeze happened.

This is completely outrageous. I thought people were crazy when they would complain that the game always freezes when they're winning, but now I'm indecisive. I've had minor Internet troubles during games before, but never this bad (usually just a brief freeze at worst), and never at such a crucial moment — when I was about to hit a new peak of success in my chess journey.

It's safe to say that I am not a very happy camper right now. What gives?

Dang, that sucks 😔

This is, without a doubt, the most downright ignorant and insulting reply I've ever seen. Tell me you didn't read what I wrote, or at the very least only read what you wanted to see, without telling me.

I don't like to be like this, but how in the world did you get to the 2000s when you clearly lack even the most basic reading comprehension skills known to man?

I agree with @leto, winning against 1100 ain't that hard

I'm 1200 and best my 1800 friends in 2 minutes

Here comes yet another person missed the entire point of the post and obviously only read what they wanted to read. I'd be impressed by your mental gymnastics, if not for the fact that it's infuriating to look at.

Yes, I certainly can win again — if the Internet doesn't randomly switch off (despite running perfectly fine for everyone else) at literally the worst possible moment. At this point, I don't know if there's any way I'd be able to spell it out any more clearly for you than I already have.

Happens to me multiple times. To be fair, chess is a complex game to teach a computer, and all that code that the website uses to calculate legal moves probably uses a lot of resources (take this with a grain of salt, I'm not a programmer). Still, I don't understand why they can't at least refund rating points to soften the blow. Especially when you have American internet to deal with, this should be something that chess.com programmers think about.

Hello! I've only had that issue once while I was winning. But to be fair, I was in a hospital waiting room where the internet connection was really spotty. Given your rise in rating over the past year, I'm sure you'll get your chance again soon and it will go better.

Good luck!

Meh, I'm over it now. I proved that I can definitely get higher than I am now, instead of stagnating permanently. I thought that would happen at 600, and then I went all the way to 800. Then I thought I'd get stuck there, only to bulldoze my way to where I am now.

I guess I'm just waiting to go into "bulldozer mode" again. Lol

I don't think this is in any way related to the topic being discussed. Reported!

Here comes yet another person who crys after losing, honestly I don't know how you're lower rating than me when you're account is 2 years old and mine is like less than a week old, that's actually impressive you managed to do that

Maybe if you don't have anything constructive to say, you could just stay off the thread? How old your accounts are compared to each other is entirely irrelevant, as is which of you is higher rated. And antagonising each other adds absolutely nothing to anything.

The thing to remember is that the computer freezing and you 'losing' doesn't actually change anything that happened. You still had a winning position, and if you did it once you can do it again. It's easy to get hung up on the numbers on this website, but it's also meant to be fun. If it's causing you that much bother, my advice is to try to take it much, much less seriously.