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grandpagord

Anyone know where chess.com is geographically located? Then perhaps we could get their time zone straightened out in order to better keep track of game time limits

 Thank you

 

grandpagord

HowDoesTheHorseMove

Chess.com is located in the highest reaches of the mind. Where else?

 

In all seriousness, what do time zones have to do with game time limits? An hour is the same in New York as it is in Buenos Aires or Kuala Lumpur.


erik
located in california. you can change your timezone in your profile. what is it affecting?
grandpagord

Thanks for the responses. I lost out on two games by time default!.  This was disappointing and frustrating. One email from Chess.com stated that I had approx 8 hours left from the time of their email for the three days to be over.  Based on the time on that email it implied that the opponent had made his move around 3.00am PST but I was not sure that the time on the email was my time or their time and I thought I had plenty of time to make my move!  Therefore I thought that if I knew the times it would things a little easier. Based on responses I gather the web page is in California and therefore their time zone is the same as my own. Its hard enough to learn the "Chess" without trying to track outside parameters.

 

Thanks for the help

Gordon

ChefSDB

I play with folks from all over the world and have never had a time issue.  I believe that you can set your time zone in your profile and that should take care of any confusion.

 

For those of you who have had time issue, I suggest that you check to see that your time zone is set correctly

 

Billium248
My suggestion would be to sign on to Chess.com as soon as you see the E-mail that you have less than 8 hours left.  You're obviously at your computer to be checking your E-mail, and even if you don't have time to figure out your move at that moment, it only takes a second to look at your online chess page and see how much time you have left.  Under 2 hours it starts telling you how many minutes are left so that you can calculate exactly when your time will be up.  I had one opponent make his move with less than 2 minutes remaining.