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Oct 4, 2017
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#1
I’ve posted I. This before. When opponent makes a move their time increases. Why do we even use the clock it’s serving no purpose
Oct 4, 2017
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#2
Can you send me a link to the game? It could be an increment or it could be lag but would be helpful to see the game you were playing in to know for sure.
Oct 4, 2017
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#3
https://www.chess.com/live/game/2351042598
every time opponent moves they got 2 seconds added to their time clock. They ran out of time in this game but if they had moved quickly enough could of gained back a lot of time. it seems to happen to every one my games. thanks for your response!
Oct 4, 2017
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#4
Happens on iPhone app and online from laptop. Also only on 3|2 games is this part of that selection? Not exactly sure what the 3|2 means...
Oct 4, 2017
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#5
3|2 means 3 minute game with 2 seconds increment. What that means, is that every time you or your opponent makes a move, 2 seconds are added to that person's clock. It is a normal part of both OTB and online chess. If you don't like increment, play games like 5 min or 3 min. The "min" means no increment.
I get this issue in every game i play.
Apr 1, 2018
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#8
why must people dilly dally until the final seconds of play then win because they can click the mouse faster...play the one minute games folks if thats your thing.
I agree
If players are in a close game then time is the ultimate factor. Similarly to football or any other game!
Mar 7, 2021
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#11
chess is not about quickness of play, hence a ten min time limit for a player to consider a move, anything else is just an nutty game
accelerated time clock to antagonize and drag i'm losing to players who are not as good sites filled with cheating and false ratings leading to paid birthings and poverty extreme poverty chess.com is garbage and players should be paid to use the site
It has started to happen more and more, several times per day. It was not like that before. Time usually increased for the opponent but sometimes for both players simultaneously. I thought the opponent cheated, but when my time accelerated, I doubted about opponent's cheating.
May 26, 2022
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#14
Smorodinca wrote:
It has started to happen more and more, several times per day. It was not like that before. Time usually increased for the opponent but sometimes for both players simultaneously. I thought the opponent cheated, but when my time accelerated, I doubted about opponent's cheating.
You have been playing 2|1 which means the clock increases by one second after each player's respective moves.
It also could be lag compensation.
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
I was playing someone who had 3 seconds left in the game. They proceeded to make 25 moves and after 25 moves they then had 12 seconds left.
How is this possible?
Dec 5, 2022
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#16
Wisemiller wrote:
I was playing someone who had 3 seconds left in the game. They proceeded to make 25 moves and after 25 moves they then had 12 seconds left.
How is this possible?
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
If it was a bullet game, I see you're playing 2|1 where 1 second gets added after each move. If a lot of those moves were premoves or took less than one second, time would increase.
So the clock has no meaning?
Dec 6, 2022
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Wisemiller wrote:
So the clock has no meaning?
The clock does, it's just that the server holds the official clocks and that's what all decisions are based on.
But again, if your post was prompted by one of your bullet games, you were playing an increment time control so time gets added after every move.
I was playing someone today and their game time was increasing by 10-15 seconds. They had under 50 seconds, after a few moves they had over 5 minutes. This is just a joke. Next game he almost runs out of time and suddenly again his time starts increasing so he quickly does the same moves a few times in a row and gets a stalemate. This is just bonkers...
