Draw!

I was playing a game (and wining) when suddenluy it says: your opponent accepted the draw! I never offered a draw. Is it possible to "manipulate" the game?

Opponent can't accept a draw unless you offered one. If you'd bumped the Offer Draw button accidentally you'd have got a large bright banner across the screen saying so. If you got that and ignored it and pressed submit your opponent would have received a draw offer.

That's the way the system is supposed to work, and there have been no reports of this problem before.

An automatic draw can happen in certain circumstances, but then you wouldn't see the opponent has accepted message. If you actually saw this message, and you've checked the game to ensure it wouldn't satisfy the requirements for any other kind of draw, I suggest that you send feedback to get the admins to look at it.

Originally posted by Tolken
I was playing a game (and wining) when suddenluy it says: your opponent accepted the draw! I never offered a draw. Is it possible to "manipulate" the game?

Originally posted by Ponderable
Are you talking about Game 10042408?

The only way the draw came to pass is that you offered it (intentionally or not). If you are sure you didn't you should send feedback. It would be disturbing if it could be manipulated.

yes, that was the game! I was att work when the "draw" was offered. I was trying to sent feedback but it does not work

This also happened to me a few weeks ago. I was about halfway thru a game when it said game drawn. I couldn't understand it, the game was nowhere near over. I was a bit upset because I thought I had the advantage so I thought the computer had decided it was an early draw or something, even tho most of the pieces were still on the board. Then I went to the archive of the game it said my opponent had accepted the draw. I never offered a draw I've been playing on this site a long time and never accidentally offered a draw before!

When I tried the feedback button to report on the misquoting of texts after the end of a drawn game, I was just pointed to here, to post my question/problem report in this forum (the "Conflicting Who-said-what ..." thread). I didn't see any way to post a message directly to the admins or support staff. Obviously mine is a minor issue compared to this one, though it coincidentally also involves a draw.

If you click on "send feedback" you get a dropdown menu listing options. If you choose Forum Moderation you'll get that kind of message. If you choose Bug Report you'll get a reporting page.

Clicking "Send Feedback" dumps me right to the Help forum, listing the threads. I never got any option selection. :/

That's weird. I just tried it and got the feedback page I was expecting. Try clearing your cache (that's what people usually say in these situations, if it's working as it should for me your computer is likely the problem). This is the page it takes me to:
http://www.redhotchess.com/core/feedback.php

Thanks. I cheated and just copied/pasted the direct link to the feedback form. That worked.

BTW: Using the latest Mozilla Firefox browser. Never had any problems with it.

Oh--and my monthly health insurance premiums clear my cash very well, thank you.

Regarding the two suspicious draws:

When you offer a draw, you must also make a move. Do the last moves in the two games look like they were made by you (Tolken & xina)?

If these don't look like your moves, is it possible that someone hacked your account, made the move and the offer for you?

Just a thought.

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