№ 33,
There is a simple solution, which has nothing to do with this site, and everything to do with you:
Don’t multitask.
Play chess, or do something else. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
In the vast majority of cases, multitasking means cheating, or wasting others’ time. For the very few outlying cases, they simply need to play chess when that’s the only thing they’re doing with that device. Et Voilà — problem solved.
If you want to do something else while playing, try casual or correspondence. But for rated blitz, you should not be switching tabs, ever, under any circumstances. Period.
If you lose because that’s what you were doing, then that is entirely your own fault.
1. "Of course, after the update we have to suffer complains from all people who had been educated to careless habits by the previous configuration"
And how come taking real life more seriously than chess is a considered careless habit? Chess is just a game, get over it.
2. " if people want to take phone calls while playing chess they should ask permission to their opponent"
After the last Android update, I can no more use any app while my phoe is ringing - the caller window appears and I can only take the call, wait till the person stops calling or turn it off. So this is not possible for my smartphone.
3. "rated games are for players who want to play chess, not to have phone call"
Than why does Lichess app allows you to play rated games on the smartphone, considering what I said in point 2.
My own phone presents me with no such difficulty. Wherefore I humbly suggest this is a problem not with lichess, but with your phone.
Let’s say, hypothetically, your Windows Update settings are such that Windows wants to reboot while you are playing chess. There is more than one way to fix this; and regardless, it isn’t lichess’s fault — or even Microsoft’s — it’s yours. Change some settings in Windows, or on your phone. But don’t whine about it here.
"My own phone presents me with no such difficulty"
And since when "your phone" = "all phones out there" ?
Im not saying its lichess fault Im saying that if I have 10 minutes more to play its not yours or anybodys business if I will dissapear for 10, 20 or 60 seconds. Im ok with waiting 3 minuts and than having the ability to claim victory, but 60 seconds ...
" There is more than one way to fix this"
Well Im not sure there is, in fact I think that there arent any so far and there wont be untill the next OS update. So please give me two ways to fix it.
Au contraire: since when is _your_ phone “all phones out there”? The burden of proof isn’t on me, here.
My “ways to fix this” referred to Windows Update. One way is to change when it checks for updates; another is to simply tell it you will reboot manually. There are other ways, too — but this is all beside the point:
It remains the case that neither of these things is a fault with this website, or the associated app.
"if I have 10 minutes more to play its not yours or anybodys business if I will dissapear"
This is exactly why the recent update was necessary and hit the nail on the head: total carlessness of some players towards the others. They play like there were a robot on the other side, not a person, forced to stare for ten minutes to a grey bullet instead of playing chess. It's ten minutes *to play*, not to have phone calls.
So, once again, I'm grateful to Lichess programmers for this update to the system, implemented in a more elegant way than I thought it was possible.
@Toadofsky #3 "I think there isn't a way to differentiate between someone who abandoned the game and someone who is taking a phone call. "
The browser, app nor the server can determine the difference. Its a security issue.
One core issue that some don't seem to want to understand is this: It is not your time to waste. If you have 10 minutes on the clock it means you have 10 mins for thinking, it does not mean that you have a right to waste 10 minutes of your opponents life.
The reason the disconnection/ claim victory option is set to appear after 40/80 or 120 secs is quite simple.
It is the socially optimal solution, extending the time ( for example from 80 secs to 3 mins) would mean to waste 100 extra seconds of everyone who has to claim victory because his opponent left.
#41 Count me among those people who don't understand it. :-) But social problems are hard to solve with technology alone.
@Toadofsky on the internet this behaviour will remain, but if you used clear names for registration there would be less of it
