when will chess.com fix the rampant timer hacking
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It’s almost every game now where the timer is cheating. I had a 3 second move +1 drain my time 10 seconds. Multiple times in a game. And don’t tell me it’s a ping issue and make excuses. People are cheating. You are covering g it up. Otherwise chess.com servers would be modified to address latency issues by correcting the time difference. If they refuse to do so. They are manipulating leader boards. Sabotaging players. And running chess clock scams to ruin ratings.
Jan 28, 2023
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Until they get it sorted out, it might be best to stay away from bullet.
It’s been years. They refuse to fix the issue. Because it sabotages players. People use it for a false sense of skill and victory.
No different than hacking video games where people cheat to control leaderboards.
Jan 30, 2023
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#7
Sometimes my timer will freeze and then i lose on time, but thats connection issue
Jan 30, 2023
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#9
Its definitely just a connection issue, if its reccurring, thats a connection issue on your behalf
Ya, mostly against that country players. Today i got twice lose caused by suddenly timer not worked.
Jan 30, 2023
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#11
treatb59 wrote:
It’s almost every game now where the timer is cheating. I had a 3 second move +1 drain my time 10 seconds. Multiple times in a game. And don’t tell me it’s a ping issue and make excuses. People are cheating. You are covering g it up. Otherwise chess.com servers would be modified to address latency issues by correcting the time difference. If they refuse to do so. They are manipulating leader boards. Sabotaging players. And running chess clock scams to ruin ratings.
Your opponent can't impact the clocks. The live server is the official time keeper and it adjusts the clocks for allowed lag.
So, the things that impact clocks are lag and lag compensation (the site does not forgive/allow all lag), small disconnects, or minor packet losses/resends.
https://support.chess.com/article/423-why-did-the-clock-times-suddenly-change-the-clocks-seem-broken
For things you can control:
https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues
https://support.chess.com/article/4720-online-chess-performance-optimizations
Jan 30, 2023
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#12
The other thing that currently can impact connections:
https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/chess-is-booming-and-our-servers-are-struggling
skill issue
I've never seen a time hack. It must be user error.
Mar 14, 2024
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#15
It is unfortunate but, this chess website is set up (written) to make money for the owners of this website, meaning that only paying members with a diamond membership will be able to hack the clock or cheat on a regular basis.
It is in the interest of the owners, because they are in reality, extorting players of their website.
The only way to change this, is for an international chess organization to take over control of the website, with official rules and ratings.
This will not happen in the near future.
If people become tired of being extorted and cheated, and the website has a large loss of members and interest, they may decide to re-write the program, that or shut it down!
Mar 14, 2024
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#16
The only advantage is for chess players to use the site for chess games against friends or people interested in playing without a time limit.
Oct 18, 2024
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#18
opponent |||| seems to be using a clock stopper program. This really takes the fun out of the game. So sad 
This underground society of people not knowing how this site works and blaming lag/lag compensation on a massive conspiracy
