Hi guys,
In a losing game (let's be honest here), I was trying to edge out a draw with 26ish seconds left on my clock, when out of nowhere it just dropped to 0 and gave me the loss? I'm not too sure what's going on here, and am not contesting it as it would have been a loss regardless and I would've resigned in a few moves anyway.
Here's the game:
lichess.org/jSBniHMfr0YH (early blunder, big yikes)
Anybody have any idea what happened?
Cheers!
33. Nxd6+ ... 28.1 s
34. Ke2 ... 17.5 s
35. Kd3 ... 4.5 s
Timeout, Black is victorious.
All of this is in the link provided at the bottom of the game displayed. How did you make two moves between 28.1 seconds remaining, and losing due to time-out? You posted the link to the game. Which means you're able to review it for yourself. After review, it seems you lied in your original post. Why?
That's the question I'm asking, from my perspective it was taking my opponent a weirdly long time to make his moves, and every time I moved I wasn't getting my +3 increment in time, rather it was going down even more. Then out of nowhere I get timed out, and even thought his knight check was somehow checkmate until I saw the timeout. No lying here lol
I don't know. I'm new here. I did not notice the +3s. But, in most cases, time is added upon the completion of a move (ply), not before or during or in addition to your move time. If you spent 4.5 seconds on your last move, plus whatever lag compensation this website uses, then, the game would have ended, and no more time would be added.
Even with the +3 increment (thank you for pointing that out), you were able to play 2 additional moves. Your time did not go from 28.1 seconds to 0 without notice. And, with the +3 increment, your opponent did not flag you. You had time to pay attention to the time in your last two moves. Between the two of you and your opponent, there were a total of 12 seconds added to the clock.
I would suggest better time management.
Then perhaps I'll wait for someone that isn't new for an idea, as I've searched and seen a few other threads with this same problem. It's not a matter of time management because like I said, I had 26 seconds left and was going to resign in a few moves anyway depending on what my opponent played and was taking a weirdly long time to move, then my clock suddenly hit 0 from 26 in 1 second.
@Daelup I believe you. I've never seen anything like this before. Maybe some weird network or server error.
@Daelup have you considered being lagged? The official time is kept on the server, and what you see is just your local time. So if your computer or network is lagging in those moments, your opponent already moved and the server gets your time, but what you see locally is his time going down because you haven't received themove. The analysis of the game you sent hint at this: check also the "time per move" graph, in the last moves you were the one taking a lot to move.