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pop_queen_legend
07-Sep-25, 16:37

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pop_queen_legend
07-Sep-25, 16:39

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pop_queen_legend
07-Sep-25, 16:55

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pop_queen_legend
07-Sep-25, 18:14

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lord_shiva
07-Sep-25, 22:24

Ignore
Please take me off ignore.
pop_queen_legend
09-Sep-25, 08:21

Deleted by pop_queen_legend on 09-Sep-25, 08:44.
pop_queen_legend
09-Sep-25, 08:44

gameknot.com

Well,finally my blitz opponents can defeat a 2500 rated blitz player(originally on Instantchess and other blitz sites) AND win on move #1 without me resigning! Congratulations....well done and of course,well earned!There are "new rules"of chess that the GK computer has gracefully engaged from the start of rated GK chess which are wonderful....aren't they?For some they are,I suppose.I am at 2175 rated GK blitz now and with wonderful losses like the game above,if the losses continue even sporadically,I will reach 2500 in about 20 years playing 50 games or more a day if I live that long.I am thrilled at the good prospects,even if higher rated opponents appear in the blitz room.I now know WHY some of the best of the best and top blitz players around the world will not come to GK for the word is out.But that is besides the point.
It would be nice if someone fixed the broken arm of GK blitz sometime before I pass away.
If that happens,maybe,just maybe GK may gain more profit through more members appearing!
What a new evolutionary thought!

Yes,GK blitz is the best.If you believe that one,I will tell you another one.
Stay tuned.Sure,I can stay out of the GK blitz room,but how else can I bring wonderful and glorious stories to you without showing you these nice gems?If only others would also post their glorious wins and losses in this thread with only one move or no moves being made.So many blitz sites over the decades which follow the normal rules,yet GK has to be "wonderfully different".

Yes,chess life is "wonderful" on GK and I am tickled pink with such wonderful and legal things going on here for quite a long time now.

TA
lord_shiva
09-Sep-25, 12:56

Clock
The blitz clock doesn’t always update well over satellite. I know because I’ve watched my opponent’s clock tick away while I awaited their move, and they even messaged me “idiot” as MY flag fell. Turns out you have to click refresh if they haven’t moved. So for that reason slightly longer games may be preferred. If your opponent doesn’t move when you expect, you really have to hit refresh, or your opponent’s clock continues down even though it is actually YOUR clock draining away.
markb56
09-Sep-25, 14:58

Cloudflare and gaming latency and cache problems
Don't forget that Gameknot uses Cloudflare and that Cloudflare is known to cause latency and cache problems for gaming applications. You can "google cloudflare gaming latency cache refresh" to read many articles and discussions. Cloudflare and others make suggestions for tuning your site's configuration to improve performance for gamers, but I wonder if the current GK owners have done anything?
lord_shiva
09-Sep-25, 15:01

Fine Tuning
I’m aware they did address some Cloudfare issues awhile back. Nothing related to Blitz chess that I know of.
pop_queen_legend
09-Sep-25, 16:26

Ghost games,no repair team,no anything.I love chaos...exciting
Clock or no clock,cloudfare or no cloudfare,delay with any moves or no delay,refresh or no refresh,
no one should win or lose with either zero moves made or only one move like in the example above and others I have listed.Perhaps if the game was on move 10 or so with connection issues,I might think otherwise.But move 1 or no moves....ridiculous to lose points or gain points.If the game registered as zero points for both opponents where no one won or lost...then ok,I accept that.I would even accept the GK blitz report to say I lost(when I did not),as long as no points lost or gained.The problem is deeply embedded in GK's own program.In reality,I do NOT even remember a game appearing in front of me with that game above with vukl.So,it was the equivalent of a ghost game that never appeared in front of me.So,I did not even have a chance to move.So,I would not blame cloudfare,but GK itself for not ripping apart their chess software programming and reexamining everything.I am no computer expert like my nephew,but this has been going on now for as long as the rated blitz has existed.Now,I checked with my friends on two other blitz sites and there are zero issues with games being counted with only 1,2 or zero moves made. 3 moves or more is a different story.One player who is a senior master told me that they use the same connection as GK's on their blitz site,but I have not confirmed that.Bu even so,its a moot point,for there are no reports on the other main blitz sites that players are winning or losing with zero moves being made or 1 or 2 moves...regardless of any connection issues that DO occur from time to time.

A repeat example:
gameknot.com

No moves made and a win and loss between me and chesplyr?Total retardation to the max.
GK has not set up something correctly.This never happened with the unrated blitz,not
that I can remember anyway.Unrated has no points of course,but I do not remember a win or loss registered with less than 3 moves.But unrated seems dead now.I see no good reason to even enter the blitz room to only be "shot down"at random and whenever some clitch suddenly and sporadically appears again.Its interesting to note that it only appears with me,perhaps ever 100 games or so.But even 2 points lost for me is a biggie to get back at my elevated rating.
An uphill grind that I will not continue to try and conquer.

Oh well,its not that these things actually bother me that much,but others will be concerned more than me in time.I think that I am the highest rated in blitz on GK for now,so I felt duty bound to show others these games.But as kingdawar stated:

"It's just bad programming, clearly games with fewer than 3-5 moves should just be aborted, and there's all kinds of other issues with disconnects not being handled properly anyway"

"If they had spent just 15 minutes on monitoring this feature after roll-out they would have known this. But they delivered this product and management just disbanded the team. It's insane".

I agree with kingdawar 100%.But let me add...that any "disconnects"with zero moves,1 move or two moves,even without a proper "reconnection"(which I had to press once in a while to reconnect a game and get a ding sound)should STILL NOT have any points won or lost with less than 3 moves.And zero moves made with points gained and lost(as in the example above)not only "takes the cake"....but the "cake"has razor blades in it.Never mind my gallows humor again!

TA



lord_shiva
09-Sep-25, 17:30

Moves
Good point. Zero or one move should not count, nor any two move game not ending in mate. These ought to be cancelled games.
pop_queen_legend
09-Sep-25, 17:32

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resol_bojateg
16-Sep-25, 06:23

May be not error with Gameknot in blitz game.Blitz game have time control so player only have certain time to make chess move. If player not make move they will lose game because time run out so may be game lost because you not move and lost all time. Opponent get win with no move by opponent.hope this help
lord_shiva
16-Sep-25, 17:49

Yes
That s the complaint. No two or three move games (not ending in checkmate) should count as win/loss.
resol_bojateg
17-Sep-25, 12:31

but what about blitz chess with time????
resol_bojateg
17-Sep-25, 13:01

oh i see what you mean now thank you lord shiva.
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