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You’ve just forked your opponent’s king and queen and victory seems certain – then all of a sudden your wireless connection is lost or your dial-up host hangs up. We are very happy to announce that hopefully these occurences should be a thing of the past. The Cup of Chess game servers now support reconnects, meaning that if your connection should go down, your match should not.
With the latest content patch that should go live in a few minutes, Cup of Chess will allow a reasonable time for you to reconnect (which will be done automatically for you). If you are able to reestablish the connection, the match timers will be adjusted to account for the ‘timeout’, and the match will continue as normal. Being disconnected for longer than the allotted period will still result in a loss as usual.
As this is something new that we are trying, we are eager to hear any feedback that you might have. Feel free to send us email at feedback@cupofchess.com.
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Thank you Cup Of Chess staff for working so hard to fix the disconnection problem. I heard you guys stayed up until 5am, worked on weekends, even abandoned your girlfriends to fix this problem for us Cup-Of-Chess players. You guys are so passionate, driven and *so* geeky. But that’s why I love you so much. Sigh.
Comment by queenpuff February 6, 2007 @ 11:27 amregarding the above comment it seems strange tome that whenever i have a disconnection i have a winning position usually against aguest or much lower rated player.this obviously costs me a lot of points.i enjoy your site but if it happens again iwont be using it any more.
Comment by ibroxlad72 June 4, 2007 @ 4:20 pmplease reply to e mail i sent u today regarding disconnections and losing many ratins points
Comment by ibroxlad72 August 20, 2007 @ 4:35 amplease reply to e mail i sent u today regarding disconnections and losing many ratins points
Comment by ibroxlad72 August 20, 2007 @ 4:35 amcheats abound on cup of chess they even brag about being able to make it look like youv`e lost connection so they can reap the points..sweet…i`m out!!!!!
Comment by chessdaddy54 November 2, 2007 @ 9:45 amYikes, I’m staying with a friend for the holidays and he has verizon wireless and man does it crash a lot. For some weird reason it only disconnects from the server and after 13 seconds of disconnect I’ve forfeited the game. Is it just the verizon wireless that seems to have this problem or is it something else. I appreciate the fact I don’t need to shut down my computer completely after I’m lost service with the server, but I am not able to resume my game unless it restarts a new game.
Comment by Kiwipuss December 22, 2007 @ 10:50 pmThanks, Kiwipuss
my chatt is not connectet but very nice site
Comment by hanspetr August 29, 2009 @ 5:59 amsorry my name is hanspeter my chatt is conectet
Comment by hanspeter August 29, 2009 @ 6:01 am