I just played a game (
lichess.org/ZojUm4STqP6M) where I tried making my move, but lichess wasn't allowing it. I also tried saying "Have fun!" as I always do, but that wasn't working either. It also said "Reconnecting" in the bottom left corner and after around 30 seconds and a few refreshes I lost the game. I checked my internet connection afterwards, and everything was fine. I don't really care about my loss of rating, I'm just curious as to why it happened.
EDIT: Actually, I think something was wrong with my upload speed - it was showing 0 Mbps - so it's probably an issue on my end.
You lost your internet connection for a while.
Be proud of having played a game where all your move(s) were the best!
(Your opponent can't say the same, though.)
Yeah :P. It's just curious how it happened exactly when I started the game.
Well, if it happened before the game, you would not have realized and we would not be having this conversation.
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@Doofenshmirtz Good one!
Is is also the basis of Murphy's law: You only pay attention when it happens.
Or we can go more philosophical: How come can we exist? This world is so wonderfully complex that it seems unbelievable that it could have emerged "by chance". Well, if you did not exist, you would not be thinking about it.
@ambrona @Doofenshmirtz It's not really like that, I'm saying it's curious because it might be the site that caused my internet to go down for a moment.
I don't think it was Lichess. It is more likely that you simply lost your connection. Have you heard of Occam's razor?
No, I haven't but I searched it up. The thing is, and why the whole situation is so interesting, I have a cable connection to my computer and I can't remember the last time I lost connection like this. My internet is pretty stable and I never have any issues with it. And in terms of simplicity, I would argue that both explanations are simple (Explanation #1 - I lost my internet connection, which made my Upload speed be 0 Mbps; Explanation #2 - Lichess continually kept asking for packets, which throttled my Upload speed). I think that both explanations are completely possible.
Anyways, I'm getting a bit too defensive now. Sorry about that.
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